I also made it out today for the first non-fat bike ride of the year. Boring little 6.5 miles on lunch over to the LBS to show them the bike I'd been telling them about. Chonks the Magnificent rides again! The drop bars really do make the bike feel right, flat bars were okay last year but the drops are just right. I'm also happy to report that Microshift Sword works great even with the bottom tier tektro C550 mech disc calipers.
She's still got mud on the tires from last year.. I never got to clean up the bikes really well with all the new baby prep we were doing in the fall time.