mihl,

So, I've been through about a million incarnations with my Cross Check, including SS and FG trailer puller, and have finally found happiness with it setup 1x8 with Albatross bars and fenders. I couldn't get it to feel right in any of the other incarnations, and something asked me to put gears on it so I did. Then my wife fell in love with it, and vastly prefers it to her Trek MTB.

I have some other framesets, one of which I just traded for some Surly hubbed Delgado wheels. My first thought was to go back to SS with the Cross Check, because I love it so much and finally felt like I had the appropriate wheels to do it with. However, when my wife saw the new wheels she asked what they were for, and when I described the intended purpose she put her foot down. She started throwing out terms like "my bike" and I relented.

Well, I hate riding her MTB, despite it being a nice one, and don't like using my roadie for trailer duty and bumming around/commuting AND I need to do something with the sweet new wheelset, so here I am....

The plan, which seems to develop daily (as they all do) is my LX cantis with my Tektro MTB levers on On One Marys. It'd be a pseudo 29'er. I think I could squeeze some 40mm Ritchey Speedmaxes in a Rob Roy and have the ability to do some light single track duty around where we live. I have everything I need already except the On One Marys and, well, the frameset.

Problem is I see some pretty good deals on Redline Monocog 29ers and keep thinking that might be better if I actually intend on trail use at all. I know the Delgados aren't the biggest rim, but I could still get fatter tires in a true 29er than I could on the Rob Roy. Hell, honestly I'd get another Cross Check before the RR, but they're too expensive for me even used.

So, yeah, that's my plan for now, and only time will tell which way I head...but yeah, intended use will be bumming around, mostly, and pumping the local, relatively smooth singletrack.