Just a brief update as I have far too many things on the go at once!
Had to agree that with the brown Ourys there were just too many mis-matched shades going on. Tried the white Ourys but just too white! (The Flite being much more of a dirty cream than white...)
Decided to go with the black Ritchey TrueGrips for now; changed the Hyperlite bar for a Reynolds 501 as I'm hoping the steel bar will take a bit of the sting out of the trail buzz over the super-stiff alloy Hyper's as I want to keep it rigid?
Xt thumbies and X-Lite ski-bends is about as far as it goes so far...