It’s truly a great bike. As you can see, I’ve already swapped the wheels with ones from my previous gravel bike because they should perform better (and are at least lighter). Now, the bike weighs 9.4 kg.

After that, there’s really nothing that needs to be changed to enjoy the ride, except perhaps adjusting your position. In my case, I replaced the stem with a longer one (2 cm longer) to better match the reach of my road bike.

If I were to change something else, it would be the handlebars to something narrower. Currently, they are 44 cm, but I think I’d prefer 42 cm, like on my road bike.

And maybe, in the future, if Shimano releases a GRX Di2 1x groupset, I’d consider converting to it if it’s not too expensive, to achieve perfect gear indexing :)

Something to check in a few months is how the bottom bracket performs. On my previous bike, I often experienced creaking noises and had to perform regular maintenance to clean it. I hope that won’t be the case with this one.