[QUOTE=TxH]I got y'all beat...this past spring I did a century (full 100 miles, NOT a wimpy metric century....lol) on my Gary Fisher Tassajara MTB. It was stock except for flak jacket slicks, bar ends, clipless pedals, and a cyclocomputer. I highly recommend bar ends if you are going to be doing serious mileage on the mtb...lots more hand positions = less hand pain. QUOTE]

I definitely agree with you about the bar ends, I had worked up to doing 30 mile rides without them and was finding it pretty uncomfortable! However, I had some fitted and it has made a major difference to my longer rides.