I have been out and about on the bike over the past few months, and have been really enjoying it. With the wife we have done several Manchester to Liverpool runs on the Trans Pennine Trail (it runs 2 minutes from our house), a couple of road rides up to Hebdon Bridge, and the Manchester 100 a month or 2 ago (and I loved every sore 100mile of it!!!)
I have been slowly collecting some extra bits for the bike to finish her off... so far I have;
Gold Ti stem, and alu bottle cage bolts
XTR front TP mech
Black and Silver Marzocchi Z2 Superfly's
Matching Easton carbon flat and riser bars
Gold Hope Grip Doctors
New carbon effect bar tape
Carbon bar ends
Originally, I had a shorter Thomson stem, but went for a slightly longer one. Now, with matching long and a short stems, and matching Easton riser and flat bars, I can do a direct comparison as I have never used risers on a XC bike.
The bars will be flatted back and painted in matte black, and the forks will probably be gloss black with simple gold "bomber" logo's, but these are all works in progress...... watch this space
G