here are are a couple pics of the girlfriends bike, it was her first road bike, she'd been on mtb up until then. anyway after a few months she noticed that she really didn't shift all that much, so we decided to go the singlespeed route.
picked up a rim from a local lbs (--Re-Cycle, in Berkeley, if you're into used bike parts for rebuilding any type of bike, i would give the used parts room a once over. the last time i dug through the bins i pulled out two track stems, and i didn't really look through the stem bins that long--)..
but grabbed the rim and pulled the rest of the parts, chainring, bolts, nuts from my second bike
which when i build back, i swear....
but in the end, she loves it, and its well under $300.