Soma Wolverine XT (Light Touring and everyday commuting)

Really excited to to get this frame since i saw a a couple of CP here in the forums. Ordered one with help from @J-Kirkham-SBC-Cycles. Got a spare Di2 6870 set so might as well use it on this one, not the best for touring I know, but can always just carry a portable charger and/or extra battery. 1500'ish miles seems to be the usual life for the battery and I doubt I'll be doing that much in one go.
Going to be drilling it so it can accept an internal groupset neatly. Will mostly be used for light touring, day to day commuting, rough roads, etc. Really thinking of abusing this as much as I can as I've read a lot of good things about this frame.

Not really sure how to build this yet as i've never had something this versatile before, will surely be running a tyre with a minimum size of 35c. Everything is going to be new to me as I've never had discs before either. Will need a lot of researching from my part as I didnt even know that there were two different disc rotors floating around, six bolt and centre lock. Might get some 650b's as i've been hearing a lot of cool stuff with using them. 1x11 maybe, force1 cranks and shimano for the rest. Got one of those fu man chu that was getting a lot of attention recently from alpkit, hoping to be here by Saturday.

No pictures yet unfortunately. Soon though!

Another Wolverine -sweet! And welcome to the club!

Not sure if you will be able to get that large a gear range if you run Shimano derailleurs with a SRAM 1X setup but I will happily be corrected.

Yeh, you're pretty much the reason why i wanted to get one myself!
I still need to research that one. if it doesnt work out, I'll just use a 6800 crankset and wolftooth ring or something. At this point, all the ideas i have are from other wolverine builds that i have seen.

subbed!

Di2 commuter?
Dis gonna be good.... subbed.

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Been commuting with di2 for 2 years now or something :p got some sets from Ribble a 2 year'ish ago for £500 or something like that, cant remember, but they had a sale before xmas.

Spare 6870

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Wolverine? Wow! Nice!

So, uh yeh, the electric part wont be electric at all. Junction box and internal routing around the BB doesnt have enough space to run around the BB shell. It's either I go external which defeats the purpose of a neat clean build or go mechanical, which I did. Got the full XT groupset so I can run with a non road drops. Didnt know this came with Hydraulic calipers and levers so the brand new spyres I just recently bought will be going on sale soon.. >.<

Got the frame, which is fracking gorgeous! This orange is so much better than the ones on the pics online. I pretty mcuh have everything now apart from the headset and seat clamp. Uncut steerer is long so will need that cut.

Will take some photos tomorrow once built up.

Thanks to SBC-Cycles for helping out build this one up. Hydraulic braking is still beyond me..

Will need the saddle and seatpost changed. Still thinking if I should get a B17 or cambium for the saddle.
Havent ridden it properly yet as I just picked it up from the shop. So far, so good. Felt really solid and comfortable. First time running tyres bigger than 30c, feels a bit weird, it's like cushioned or something.
1x feels good, less hassle since there's no FD.
Got a restrap frame bag in large but I think i got it with the wrong size, should've went with medium.

Very clean. Good job.

nice! what size is the frame?

Oh my god I want a wolverine

50? 52?

Was planning on getting a 50 as the tt on the 52 was a massive 55.5. Frame is a 52 and it fits me fine. Was worried it wouldn't. Spacers and shorter stem kinda balanced it out