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In this pic, you can see I already nixed the mountain crankset in favor of a more road friendly polished 30-54 Ultegra. I have since ditched the rack, and fenders; Swapped out the fork for a canti version with a lighter handling 50mm of rake. That also meant installing non-dynamo/non-disc front wheel; The mountain derailleur & cassette is now gone in favor of an Ultegra rear derailleur/Edco Monoblock cassette, AbsoluteBlack chainrings, & set the bike up tubeless with 700x25 Grand Prix 5000 tires.
All told, all added up, all in over the last 4 years or so, between the 2 above threads and subsequent changes to final configuration, as it stands today, I'm in probably about $5000 for the 2 bikes.