Scavenging key parts from a "chainless" or shaft-drive bike, he got the drive/chainstay from a Taiwanese supplier, and being a framebuilder with loads of time and patience, ended up machining, brazing, cutting, or otherwise constructing the bike to fit the part. It's a 7-speed, so technically it doesn't belong 'round here, but it's so sleek (overlooking the commuter topend), so I'll make an exception. It looks like a single speed, and it would make a damn clean bike if you got rid of those pesky cables and brakes. If it could be built as a fixed gear, I might even suspend my front brake fanaticism, just to be able to ride the simplest bike ever.
Doubt I'll ever run across one though, since it was a serious pain to construct, and this is coming from a guy with a framebuilding jig, a lathe, and access to the engineer that designed the shaft. You can read some details from the thread of the framebuilder's list or better yet, go straight to the pictures.
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