D2:

We will be getting Road Bikes and yes I will occasionally commute on the Vanilla. If I drop the bike an it gets scratched then so be it. If it gets schratched bad enough, I will get it repainted. I like to ride all of my bikes. This past week I have been commuting on my spectrum track bike http://www.spectrum-cycles.com/ Spectrum has a steel waiting peiod of i think 8 weeks, as most of the frames that he sells are Ti. Tom is a top notch designer and has designed many bikes for World Champs and even Greg Lemond.

I am undecided about flying out to Portland for a Sacha White fitting or get fit with a local designer who works with Scaha. I am not totally comfortable with the local fitter, as he tends to raise people's handlebars. I have had 4 bikes made with the same position and do not want to change too much.

My wife likes red bikes, so we will go with some type of a matching red scheme.

I decided to go with Vanilla, because the detail work that he does very few people currently do. I fell in love with his rear drop outs.

I also looked at Richard Sachs, David Kirk (The Terraplane Model is awesome) and Tom Kellog. I was going to go with Richard Sachs, but he is old school and will not build a 650 wheeled bike.