Now that I'm finished with my hardtail build and generally impressed with the Carbonal frame I have started thinking about my next project. I know that later in the year, finances allowing, I'd like to put together a CX bike although it's unclear whether the frame I want is available or not. In the meantime I was thinking of trying to replace my Ellsworth frame with a carbon one. It weighs about 27lbs at the moment and that's with full XTR 970, XTR Wheels and mostly Thomson kit (Reba forks tho).
I'd need a relatively lightweight 26" frame with 135mm QR dropouts, convert XTR to single ring, replace shifter, derailleur, cassette and OneUp.
I guess I might also need a new shock. The one I have is an RP23 200mm E2E.
Any thoughts, advice?