Going to Roubaix to build a frame...but what to build or the other side of the n+1 problem

So I'm going to Roubaix to build a frame and the more I think about I'm realising that I might just have all the frames that I need in my life a the moment (and in by me forseeable future).

So what do I have? I think that I'd list what I have to help find the gap

I have the following frames/bikes:
A Duell Professional fast road bike-rim brakes
A Lemond Gan semi fast roadbike (takes 28 mm tyres just fine)
An all-road Isen with disc brakes
A coupled Geekhouse cantilever travelbike
A Gan Well track bike with road disk fork (winter bike)
A Singular Swift mtb with eccentirc BB modified with eyelets for front rack and fenders
A Singular Peregrine mk3 all road thing
A Thorn Audax (current commuter/child carrier)
A classic french audax bike

So with all the information above I thougth that I would build a bike that:
*Built with with Columbus Life tubing (?)
*Pacenti Paris Brest fork crown
*Takes 32 mm tires and fenders with a caliper brake

• Has cantilever fittings for 650b wheels
  *Fork with ISO disc/canti/caliper fittings
  *Rear ISO diskbrake tab
  *PMW sliding dropouts (If i can find them in Europe...)
  *External routing
  *Fittings for DT shifters
  
• Front and rear rack fittings
  
  

So apart from this resembeling the bike version of the infmaous hamburger-french fries-calzone Carlskrove I´m afraid that this will be a classic master of none kind of situation.

The sensible thing might be to build some kind of gravel/allroad thing that could be used at my patners parents in Finland and would be used for road/ death gravel/overnighter-mix....

I really don´t knowq what to do. Please help!

Some things you may not have that you could build:

Fast disc road bike. (1x11?)
Fixed gear road bike. 2 brakes, full guard mounts
Gravel/bikepacking rig with all the mounts
Modern Audax bike, internal dynamo wire routing

I do feel that I'm missing a rig in my life, also it could be merged with Finish-Summer bike idea(and might be the kind of bike that I could ride in winter with a tire swap!)

Also, if I do get something inside my thick skull during the class, In theory I could always build myself the all-all-all-road bike in the future?

Seconding the 700x45 R I G , you could use the canti mounts for a cute rack. Would double as a 35 + guards winter bike too.

Yes! Cantis seem like a good 2-in-1 option along with disc ISO disc tabs.
I'm thinking that if I could get my hands on a Konga yoke that would be very nice vis a vi the Finnish theme.

Whats a good paintjob with white and dark blue? Maybe the white base with the sponge thing that Squid do? It's something I could most likely do myself

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Or mabye this is a better idea (but with dark blue top)? Fadez obvs takes more time but might be worth it?

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Or maybe....

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So, WFH hasn't really gone as planned... On the other hand I think that I´ll be heavily inspired by the Bearclaw Thunderhawk but my thinking is that I´ll have a mostly horizontal top tube and non-tapered headtube due to astetics.

You need a 75 degree 22c max track bike

Also wondering if above is basically some kind of bastard child between the Crust Bombora and Romanceur. I'm thinking about nameing it the Karhu Rombora.

Question, if I space my dropouts to 142mm, I can with Paragon inlets go down to 135 mm OLD (and QR)?

Also I'm buying a yoke from Konga

Have you already bought it? I have one that I'll never use

When have you booked a slot?
I have been looking into doing a course myself, eager to hear your feedback!

I have booked the week 11-15/4 and I'll stay to watch both Paris-Roubaix races

So this is how it's going. My feeverish dreams of a Swiss -army-knife bike couldn't be realised in a week, so some things had to be taken out of the specification. To me it seems a bit short for the effective top tube, I have asked Andreas what he thinks so there might be some modifications.

I think as long as I manage to purge myself of the idea of a quiver-killer bike I'll be fine.

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Also bike not be white blue fadez but black with neon pink and gold splatter, driven by some kind of use what you got-rationale ( in this case montana cans for a paint job that didn't materialise).

Andreas is quick, new revised geometry that looks more me! Final tweeks will be done in the workshop on monday!

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Don't have time for a lot of writing. In short
1) Andreas is a wonderful teacher and host!
2) Welding is hard for us with bad coordinaton!
3) So satisfying to learn something new at the age of 38. The good thing with being useless at something is that progression is fast and noticeable!

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So cool!

It's starting to look like a bike! One nice thing with the process, is that if you decide you want an chain stay dimple and a splitter for Gates drive,you can just ask Andreas and he might say yes (also and indication that I don't know what I want,wich is a bit liberating actually!).

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Le done! Or almost, there's a disc brake mount missing on the fork, but Andreas promised to take care of it!

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I thought it was going to be a fixie but they’re just sliding dropouts? What’s the build plan again?

The was a bike that I could use at my in-laws in Vasa, Finland, both during summer and winter/Christmas. I wanted to use PMW sliding dropouts so that I could use both 135 mm OLD and 142 mm OLD wheels if I had to source something locally (also I was curious how they worked). Also wanted something with a lot of clearance for knobbly/studded winter tires (it should in theory with the dropouts positioned in the middle Take 622x58 with ISO clearance). And if all fails component wise, I can run it single speed.
It's my Mad Max- bike.

Don't really know how to build it up with, but something cheap with a high Q-factor.

I'll probably be in the market for a framebag the future...

update?