Jumping to conclusions! But well spotted!
The rim-brake wheels with broken spokes are being rebuilt.
The 32 spoke disc wheels are the original Volpe Disc wheels that I have now put 32mm Gator Hardshells on for light tour/randonées I’m having a set of 36 spoke wheels built up for loaded touring. Those will have 37mm Top Contacts. It’s basically a back up of all the spare parts I had and a great deal on the second hand bike.
I’ll be lending it to a friend for a two month tour together of Japan next year. It’ll fit him good. So not just redundancy.
I put the front derailleur bar-end on (an old one I had lying around as the rear one broke) to solve the problem of road brifters with a MTB crankset (wider BB). MTB front derailleur as well, of course. So brifter for braking, bar-end for shifting.
Rear brifter works normally.
Here’s a picture of my commuting Volpe: 😂 I’m a guitarist. Ask any guitarist, they’ll give you a nod and a ’yup’.
Uh, I’ve got other bikes as well, but these are the Volpes 
cool on lending the bike to a friend for a shared trip.
ya, figured the bar end thing was for that reason. Friction front shifting is really nice, I have considered doing it using my Gevenalle shifters if I were ever to go to a bike with 11 speed or something where using a brifter is also nice for the rear.
So--the "any guitarist" comment--not being a musician, I don't get it---is it the colour coding? Does this relate to specific notes or a chord or something? Cute how all your bikes have this interesting pattern of colours, looks good even if one has no idea what it means.
and I chuckled at the other bikes comment too. We are all lovers of bikes here arent we?