As an overall achievement, I can say I've arranged a far more comfortable cockpit for myself now with that particular (Sunline) set up. Both the seatpost and the sadle are very comfortable to ride in and do shed a few grams off the stock setup. As to the rims, they've been laced up onto Hope pro2's and I've also been able to chose the hub's colour (blue front/red rear).
Ta mate. That is my Slayer ride in there. The only problem with this bike is that it is making me want sell all of my old bikes as now I only want to ride bikes which would allow me 160mm travel in the front. The bike's geometry has been kind of an eye opener for me. I've got enough bobs and pieces to build another bike, but I cannot come up with a hardtail I like enough to build up on it. I want kind of an AM moster now for hucking arround, jumping, skateparks or whatever.
Now I am riding more my exalt ride, but I do ride this bike every day and it is still my favorite one. Because it has so long a chainstay the bike is quite stable at high speed, but it is harder to maual than my exalt ride.