Nice long trip today, had a little adventure round before heading home after a short camping trip in Wales. After not doing a lot of mileage last year, I think I've beaten the entire years mileage so far and we're only in May. Definitely becoming much much more confident with the bike and what it can do, even loaded up with luggage (albeit not that heavy, but would have definitely added some wind resistance).
It pished it down on Friday, and getting back today, noticed there was some grimey crud around my fork dust seals and up the forks. Wiped it off, doesn't smell oily at all... Popped the dust seals off, and above the oil seal is full of water and gunky dirty mess, wiped off and water/gunk mopped up, seals refitted, and I'm now only left with a very faint ring where the dust seal gets to. I think this is actually forming in the XCP, maybe with the remnants of water inside the dust seal, rather than a fork oil leak, but will keep an eye on it.
Unfortunately with the wet riding my squeaky brakes have returned, and my sticky throttle. The latter I have tightened the pull cable slightly which fixed that (don't understand why that fixed it, but Hello ho). The brakes I will have a look at/clean (again!) next week when I have some more time to myself... might even treat myself to some new, known name brake pads