Review ride after a 600km..

The frame
The frame is realy amazing. It's stiff and comfortable. Due to the xx1 setup, and no cable stack it's also verry quiet! The 17,5 turns out te be perfect to me. The overall weight of the bike, 8,8kg, makes it a perfect climbing machine, althougt a real climbe test is yet to be sceduelled for 30-05-'15 (limburgsmooiste)

The XX1 group
In short, its the best group i have ever ridden. Its light, quiet and works perfectly!

The XTR brakes
Like the xx1 group, its also perfect. its light, Nice eyecatcher, easy to bleed and perfectly adjustable. I ride the brakes with 160 rotors, but in the mountains i will mount a 180 rotor in front. For xco in holland the 160 rotors are fine.
Wheels
The ztr crest combined with the dtswiss 240s hubs they're light, stiff an just beatyfull! At the moment i ride with RaRa 2.1 with are fine when its not to slippery.
The Reba fork
Don't know what to think about the fork so far. Didn't have the opportunity to realy test the fork in rocky areas, but so fas its doing its job.

Future adjustments
Switch the prologo saddle with a selle italia SLR carbon to lose another 125 gramms.
Rigid front fork (vpace 590grams full carbon) to save another 1000gr!

Alternative for the neco headset, also to save some weight. Suggestions are welcome!

Thanks! Haven't had the time to put the chims in place, i'l let you know when i have,

So far, the bike is superb! The ride is realy responsive and smooth. The combination of the stiffnes and geomatry of the frame makes the bike realy competative. Also i had zero cable noice in the downtube; no foam trick needed here!

Also the reba fork realy surprises me. I wil get a rigid fork also, but the reba makes it a real nice ride.

The xtr brakes are also very nice. I'm glad i made the decission of switching from the xx Avis to the xtr's. Nice feeling on the levers and with the 160m hs1 rotors more than enough stoppingpower for xc competition. 'M not sure about the saddle, maybe i'l get a black/red version instead. Any suggestions?

Thanks! The spaces come on top of the bearing, between the bearing and the topcap?

First test ride today and i noticed there was some spacing on the NECO headset. It's like the top bearing doesn't fit al the way into the top of the frame and there's some space between the bearing and the frame. Someone had the same problem? I heard several if you ride with other headsets like cane creek or FSA?

Cable is in place! Next the BB.

Directly started with the 4.0 drill....... Now starting with a 4.2 or 4.5 drill, and hoping that wil do the djob. I searched for something with a flex hose, bot can't realy find one on the internet that suits the job. BTW, is the cable stop ar the top also that long on the inside?