Did you read my whole post?

I could ride a Next Powerclimber to work for that matter. I don't want or even have room for a "stable" of bikes, so this will be my only pavement bike for everything not dirt. I have a nice Surly Karate Monkey for that. I like to do long rides around the city of 30-50 miles at a time, but none of the bikes I have slapped together in recent months did it for me. I had a nice Masi road bike with 2x9 gears and a carbon fork but the frame ended up being too small for me. I have been trying to build up bikes with whatever cheap stuff i can slap together but i need to be more intensional at this point.