I've just done the summer cross event at Baggeridge (my first cross event) and it was ace. Good bunch of people and interesting course, highly recommended. Managed to bag 2nd for my age group too which was a surprise on the Surly
I've got the Mulo and stuck carbon forks on which has saved about 500g overall so that could be another route particularly when the frames have been discounted . . . .
Just finished building this Kinesis R2 up with some scribes and swapped a few bits out, looking forward to trying it on 32s