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Rang him the other day to see if I could change a few things on the order and he hadn't started it yet, I was pretty pleased with this as it allows the changes but johnnettles post seems a bit more likely now. Anyway it looks like i've got a little while to sort out the colour.
I've changed my mind and now going for a longer brake drop to provide more clearance. An annoyance on my current frame is the limited space afforded by my calipers I find i have to adjust them every now and again. I also rode a bike with r650 calipers and couldn't really tell any difference between those and some sram short drops.
I'm going to have 853 fork blades as well, I couldn't find much information on these but I'm hoping they will lighten up the front end a bit.
Last change isn't frame related but I'm probably going to go shimano 105 for the group, assuming I can get rind of my rival set.
Colourwise I'm leaning towards a gun-metal again. I was worried this might be too dark with the rival but now i think silver 105 gear should lighten it up.