Pinholecam I will reach out to you via FB - curious to check out your TI N+. My ideal bike is titanium but its expensive as hell and I am not too comfortable with the idea of a breakaway at this point (as said I am not very technical though I want to learn) and i prefer a bike where i can use for loaded touring. As mentioned I was leaning towards the Birdy (its compact, multimodal) and looked at my brother in law's Bike Friday NWT but with my eventual goal being as touring bike i noticed everyone (even foldingtales) eventually moved up 18" > 20" > to a full size bike made me ponder that larger wheels is the probably the way to go.

I am curious I was reading the Changebike the 650b MTB full bike weighs 12.9kg with mid range components - and you mentioned that your bike setup seems heavier at 14kg? So i am wondering where I can get some savings in terms of weight.

My current foldable MTB is around 17kg all in with accessories so I am hoping to shed at least 5kg to justify the effort where I am even struggling as you mentioned to find the first component which is the SRAM XG1150 cassette - seems like ebay, Lazada the few options i found seem to be OEM/counterfeit parts.