2012 or 2013 model year. I wanted one pretty badly back in the day, but even at EP pricing from my bike shop job money was too tight to justify it. My wife was still in school and we were quickly transitioning away from fixie rides with friends to road and mountain bikes and some touring. Just wasn't the right time to invest money into a bike that wouldn't see much use.
Fast forward a dozen years and I came across this frameset on eBay. NOS, still in the original box. Got it super cheap and decided to build up my dream fixie. Not what I would build now, what I would have built then. Nitto S83 seatpost, NOS UI-87EX stem, and RB-021 pursuit bars. Dura Ace crankset, 49T ring, lockring & BB and Izumi V Super Toughness chain, all NJS stamped because we thought that was cool back then. Dura Ace High-Flange hubs laced to NMSW Deep Vs because, again, we though Deep Vs were cool in the day (they aren't, they're terrible). Thickslicks for skids (when my knees still let me do them) and an 18t Phil cog off of my 3.5 Phil hubs. Honey tape lashed with hemp twine and a cut-and-tied Honey B17 Champion Special round it out; black would look better, but it was honey or nothing in the 00's, at least in my neck of the woods. Finishing touches are a selection of my spoke cards to remember alleycats and gatherings past, and a High Life bottle cap to reminisce about all those Sunday afternoons spent drinking beermosas to dehydration in the sun at bike polo each week.