I've got a few hundred miles on this guy and still enjoying it quite a bit, but in the name of progress, I finally took the time to make a couple of mods that I had in mind after the drop bar conversion.

One small issue is that the rack was starting to rattle more and more. As I said before, I carry about 20lb of clothes, food, and computer gear on my commute and after 400 miles, it was starting to wear on the plastic parts where the rack is loosely mounted to the axle.

I have an Old Man Mountain rack that I've had longer than any of my bikes now and love it. It's now mounted to the bike and saved about 170 grams. It's a solid mount rather than the pivot they mount their rack on in case you want to fold it down and use as a stand.

I also had a spare CX fork laying around with disc tabs on it from an upgrade on another bike. I just had to swap out the crown race and the fork came over without a problem. That aluminum fork was almost 1.2kilos! The new carbon CX fork is 748 and feels so much better.

That's a pound and a quarter...

Turns out that while I managed to true the wheels nicely, I had a fender bender with another biker one day and broke a spoke. Taking that opportunity to try my first wheel build. I have a set of Deore XT 8000 hubs on the way along with a pair of DT 460 rims. That should give me another couple hundred grams I imagine... and I can stop riding around with a borked front wheel.