Not bad. Thanks for the input. I don't think I'm going to go 1x just because of the limitations. Some extra weight and some extra stuff is worth the extra gears. My girlfriend loves single track but is not a gear nerd like me at all so I just want her to be able to have the gears she wants when she needs it. She would gladly just stick with the 3x7 thats on the bike now but since I need to burn up some S-TEC discounts I am going to hook her up.

By the way, what made you decide to go 1x9 instead of just 2x9? I know it's the trend and all but before it was in magazines and at interbike I feel like nobody was doing it. It's funny how the world spent decades trying to get more gears and now all the sudden instead of make a 12 speed cassette they just made a long tooth chain ring haha.