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Hehe I hope you kept a big stock of IS to PS adapters. They are getting hard to find these days. 

I've never felt a pair of Gustavs but I've been told that they were very powerful and came on STRONG!

I have a thing for esoteric but brutally effective components. 

I have two complete sets of m755 Xt 4 pot calipers still running on bikes. Combined with Trickstuff pads and m785 levers they are still awesome. 

I also have a set of Navigator 6 pot calipers hooked up to Saint m810 levers with carbon ceramic pads and huge Hope V2 discs. Surprisingly civilised brakes given their sheer physical capability.

Finally I have a set of OG Middleburn rs8 x-type cranks. Fully modular, direct mount, dh rated, and ever so slightly wonky spacing on the spider because british!

But that's the thing, servo-wave has been with us since the 9 speed era with the m770 and m810 brakes. But wandering bite point only really became an issue when the m7000/m8000 brakes were introduced.

Also for master cylinder wear, I've got lots of m810 and m785 levers that are still going strong over 10 years later.

After running m785, m810, m820, m8000, m8020 and m7120 brakes I'm almost certain the wandering bite point is down to a combination of tiny air bubbles in the lever reservoir and the placement of the port to the master cylinder. 

If you get a really good bleed by either flicking the lever a billion times or using a syringe to pump oil in and out of the reservoir, and chase out all the tiny bubbles in the reservoir. There is no wandering bite point. 

Even if I don't get a perfect bleed I sometimes find the wandering bite point disappears as the bubbles migrate to the top of the reservoir over time. 

As for the Cura4s, holy shit they are good with sintered pads! I can almost hear individual bits of sinter gouging my Hope floating rotors.

I find the Shimano organic pads to be weaker than the sintered pads all round. They are also commonly accompanied by the annoying high pitched turkey goble. 

There are some organic and semi metallic pads which are surprisingly even better than Shimano sintered pads: Trickstuff Power+, Uberbike Racematrix and Discobrake Copper free.

Losing to Crank Brothers on quality would buuuurrrrrnnnnn...

The crazy thing is that with the ever increasing weight, the single crown forks are beginning to encroach on things like the MRP Bartlett. Which would also solve issues of CSUs and stiffness.

Hell Manitou could hit it out of the park and re-introduce the carbon MRD Dorado and allow travel reduction down to 160mm, and have adjustable axle to crown height and offset. Mmm dreamy.

Doesn't the new Durolux have 38mm stanchions as well? I smell a fork comparo to end all fork comparos.

I've always loved Godzillas since Gran Turismo came out on the ps1. I almost bought a V35 when I was shitty at my wife a couple of years ago (worst reason to buy a car ever). 

Instead I've become a total bikeslut and just keep buying nice bikes secondhand. So far I've got a slew of Turners, Pivots, Banshees, Lynskeys, a Pole, Canfield etc etc. I'm a so-so rider but the bikes make me happy, and I think I've spent less than a quarter on my bikes then I would have on the GTR, which would have only caused trouble, divorce or both.

Why not just use a Oneup EDC in the steerer tube?