Hey Everyone,
I've been lurking for awhile and just "finished" building my Crosstrail so thought I would post. It started as a 2011 (19" frame). I bought it off a guy who lived in an apartment complex so it was left outside and had some surface rust on a couple bolts and the underside of the fork. The bike has always been a tank to me and I wanted a more simplistic drivetrain. I was going to go single speed but decided to go 1x instead. I added a Surly Karate Monkey fork, RaceFace Next CF bars, RaceFace narrow wide chainring going 1x8, changed the cassette to 11-34, RaceFace Atlas stem, and swapped out the seat post for a Thomson Elite.
When I started it was 31.8lbs and now it's 25.8.