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Update time.
CAAD has been split and sold. Slight regrets but it wasn't getting used and I needed the money to fund other builds.
Iroko has been sold. Was very much looking forward to a year of MTB'ing but personal circumstances have changed and it wasn't going to happen. It's stayed within the forum and maybe/hopefully I'll buy it back one day.
With the money from the CAAD I had a friend build me a wheelset that would work as a track, road fixed or single-speed setup as that's the only riding I plan to do atm. I went for 45mm deep 20/24 FSE carbon road rims on DT Swiss dbl sided track hubs, spokes are similar to CX rays and tyres are GP 4000's found on the forum. In hindsight I'd probably of preferred low profile rims but the main driving point was the spare stock of 45's I was able to get for a good price. Needless to say Martin has done an amazing job with the build and they're lovely to ride.
So now I have three frames (Surly, Capo and Argos), three wheelsets and more than enough bits to build three bikes. I've decided on Surly for commuter, tracklocross and maybe long-hauler single speed. Capo will be my nice commuter, weekend toy and road fixed weapon. The Argos is a bit redundant and I really don't see the point in having three fixed rides for the road. However I'm looking into doing track accreditation at HH to get over the loss of MTBing this year so it may turn into a proper track bike yet.
On the Capo it rides great but looks shit. I stuck a load of my "nice" bits on it and it just ended up looking like a very lardy run of the mill stock build (see pics below). So as I like a challenge I've gone back to the drawing board and will try and do something better with it.
Zen, Omniums, Monkey bars, Fizik R1 saddle and carbon post all heading to classifieds soon...