My best friend's brother left "Fat City" Cycles in Boston in the mid nineties with some of Fat City's frame builders, and founded Independant Fabrication mainly as a mountain bike company. Road and Cross bikes were a minor part of the business back then, and they only built steel frames at the start. He sold his share of the company last year, and I'm kicking myself for not buying one of their road frames while I still could get a "friend of the family discount". My friend has a couple of their custom built frames and they are beautifully crafted. The carbon/titanium frame is a masterpiece. Rest assured, there are no better quality custom frames out there. Take good care of that Indy Fab machine.