Originally Posted by
GhostRider62
You mentioned lightweight backpacking gear. My base weight for backpacking is about 9 pounds. I weight 220. I crossed the USA with 15 pounds of gear riding on carbon rims, 20H front and 28H rear. I have 50K miles on those wheels and have never turned a spoke on them. At 120 pounds and 20 pounds of gear, you can ride anything to be honest. Ride what is most comfortable is my opinion
If I can get by with a 24h wheelset that'd be awesome. I have the stock wheelset which I can use instead of buying a different set of wheels.
I think I'll try the Domane, rack, and paniers for short on-road trips and see how it goes with that. I might change the GP5000s I have to a different tire too just in case I decide to do some light off-roading . . .
I was planning to eventually upgrade the groupset anyway (the model with the gruppo I wanted was backordered 6-8 months but my LBS gave me a good deal on the next model down) so I'll go from a 2x9 to either a 2x10 or 11. And I ran out of gears on an 11% grade 0.5 mile climb the other day so I'll definitely need an extra low gear or two.
Thanks again everybody!