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The more serious frame mods are for much further down the line but to answer your question @drøn - from eyeballing it, there is at >5mm that i can take off the bottom of the headtube, I would just need to take care not to remove so much that the lower headset cup clashed with the DT.
At the back it is more difficult so will depend on whether I modify the existing dropouts or replace them - if I modify the existing ones, I imagine just moving the axle seat up the same ammount as I take off the headtube would work, effectively making a built in Wolftooth road link, there is plenty of meat in the dropouts to play with.
But, back to the present - I've thrown on the Kinesis forks and the cockpit and saddle from my winter roadie. Turns out the fit is pretty similar to my synapse so, for now, its got a 120mm stem. I'll probably take it down to 110 or maybe 100mm at some point for off roading. Bars are down from 44cm to a much more windy Edinburgh appropriate 40cm Spotter bars (which is wide compared to the 38cm FSAs on the Synapse that measure more like 36).
I'll give it a shakedown like this then strip it next week and grease/threadlock/anti-seize everything and recable it. It's in pretty decent nick but hasn't seen much in the way of maintenance for a while i'd guess.