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kiskubai
I'm glad you like it! I was going to put it on Another Forum, but I flounced from there a fortnight ago.
I like frame bags but I would rather have a sort of giant tail pack, partly to be aero and partly because it's nice to have empty space for shopping. Partly for use in London and partly when touring because sometimes you have to buy bulky things from supermarkets which don't fit anywhere until you've spent ages faffing with the packaging and rearranging all of your bags to make a little bit of space here and a little bit of space there. So I'm thinking I could make a Dyneema tent with carbon poles (which I was going to do anyway) and the poles could double as a rear rack. I imagine it as a bunch of triangles made of thin carbon struts, held together by rubber fittings. (The tent would be single skinned and it ought to be quite a bit lighter than anything commercially available.)
I've got some ultra skinny carbon mudguards, which should be easy to squeeze in. I'll probably use the Meilensteins. The only tyres which don't break the 105% rule are Conti Comp 19s. It would be great to use those for the aero benefit of the wheels, and their light weight. On the other hand I could use Dugast 27s or something, for comfort. The deep rims would be dead weight, but the wheels only weigh 1040g, so it's a bit academic. And the Lightweights are bombproof, can't go out of true and are very stiff, so there won't be any brake rub from the ridiculous Chinese calipers. I've also got some 80mm Lightweights which I haven't tried. I know they sound stupid to tour on, but...we'll see.
Edit: The mudguards are Gilles Berthoud https://www.peterwhitecycles.com/berthoudinst.php 25mm wide, 170g inc struts. That could probably be reduced a fair bit.