For the last two weeks, I've been spending my evenings down in the basement building a thief-deterrent bike for a trip to Portland. My wife likes when I go down to work because it gives her a chance to watch all the TV shows that I don't like to watch. In the two weeks, I attempted every possible combination of 4 frames, 2 wheelsets, 3 sets of cranks, a flat bar drivetrain vs drops, plus fender fittings.

My final build was my old Technium from high school as a fixie with a dished wheel to compensate for not wanting to risk my "good" bb spindle that would have given me the correct chainline.