I liked the idea of the bad boy. I really liked the look of the frame. I bought one off ebay that someone had built up from a frame with high-end parts. I'm not sure why, but I absolutely hated riding it. I rode it to work three or four days, making tweaks to the fit each day. My desire to ride it was so low that it took me about a month to get those four days in.

I finally gave up and resold it.

As a disclaimer, this was during the time that I was making the transition from MTB-based bikes to road/cross bikes for my commute. The odd thing was, I could jump on my old mid/early 90's mongoose MTB that I'd made a commuter and it rode much better than the BB.

I'm still not sure what the problem was for me, but it just wasn't working.