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@Jimmy_Fingers
Just zapped up a 11% climb in my lunchour. Well I say zapped, more accurately I meandered up like a drunken goat. As I have said I don't have anything to compare it to apart from Shimano MTB groupsets (XT mainly) but so far I'm constantly impressed on the speed and the precision of the shifting, underload or not. On a less steep slope the bike feels incredibly willing and I love being able to blast up and down the cassette very quickly. My one gripe on the shifting would be on the front mech, because it doesn't have just two (or three even) settings, but seems to have the same as the right shifter, so moving between the big rings can be vague, but I'm getting into better habits so it not problem.
The carbon levers are lovely, nuff said.
I have the alu crankset, which is supposedly more flexy that its Shimano peers but I can't say I notice it overly. Its also narrower, which I like. If you get the carbon cranks it will be stiffer also.
Overall very, very pleased with it, and the bike overall, although some fucker in my office moved it this morning and I found two dirty great paint chips on the top tube. I took out my anger on the road....