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@Velocio
Yup.
For the moment.
The whole point of the new bike is to allow me to do things that I was finding hard on the track bike or road bike. I want full mudguards, I want to be able to tour (carry luggage), I want to be able to travel easier and cheaper (S&S couplers so that it fits in a standard-ish suitcase), I want gears available for when I do cross mountains, I still want low maintenance, I love the idea of a dynamo-hub... yet I still want fixed or single speed and a really clean bike a lot of the time too, and ultimately I don't have space for many bikes so needed to think of one bike and how to transform it for many purposes. What in the end means, a great frame and multiple wheelsets to produce multiple bikes with a total lower cost and minimal storage requirements.
So the new bike is designed around the vision of "build a frame that allows the resulting bike to be a geared tourer, a singlespeed cyclocross, a fixed city bike". And that's what I've done.
However it's true, budget constraints (my being broke most of the time) means that from the outset the frame will only have 1 wheelset, which is the geared and dynamo-hub one. So until I get the second wheelset in probably 4 months time, I'll be trundling around geared... this somewhat seems appropriate given my nome de plume.