I went SLX everything in the end. Seems hard to justify spending extra money on top of it for the sake of bling.
Seeing as it looks like I should have a bike built up for the first round of the Southern Series - how do XC race catergories work? seems there are potentially four races I could enter: Open, Sport, Expert or Elite. I have reasonable palmarès from cyclocross but I haven't raced a mountain bike for about a decade. I'm leaning towards expert.
I went SLX everything in the end. Seems hard to justify spending extra money on top of it for the sake of bling.
Seeing as it looks like I should have a bike built up for the first round of the Southern Series - how do XC race catergories work? seems there are potentially four races I could enter: Open, Sport, Expert or Elite. I have reasonable palmarès from cyclocross but I haven't raced a mountain bike for about a decade. I'm leaning towards expert.