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Right, so a wee while since I've updated this thread.
I've been through a few iterations of brakes. The lever on that Gatorbrake 6pot never seemed to be in quite the right position and the feel was a bit, meh. So I took the non-leaking rear M755 caliper from used it to replace the leaky front one, handily this also meant I can now run a 180mm rotor on the front without any adaptors. I had a BB7 on the rear for a week or so and I did consider going full cable for a while but then I got an old set of m585 brakes and dual control levers off a work colleague so I've mated a 585 singlepot caliper to the rear 755 lever that was now minus a caliper and it feels great and my levers now match so my cockpit ocd is satisfied. There's a wee bit less free lever stroke than on the front brake but its fine.
I also treated myself to a Thomson dropper when a possible career move (which would have meant money being a bit tighter) failed to materialise.
I'm now pretty satisfied with the setup but while I like certain aspects of the 'compact' frame I do sometimes wonder if it is maybe just a little bit small for me.
Thing is, singlespeed frames designed around long travel forks in sizes other than teeny tiny are not exactly growing on trees. Anything that does show up on eBay tends to be pretty high end and as such, out of my budget. I know, I just bought a Thomson dropper so I can't really talk about budget but then again, I did just buy a thomson dropper, I can't really afford to spend much more on this bike right now...
Anyway, I saw a 20" Genesis IOID frame on ebay for buttons so have bought that. 20" will maybe be a bit on the large side for what I want to use this bike for but I'm not even sure if that'll be 20" c2c or c2t nor whether the steerer on the Krampus fork will be long enough for the headtube but the frame was cheap enough that if it doesn't work out I can just sell it on and shouldn't lose too much if any money on it.