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Update:
A few months ago I bought possibly the most boring bike ever, a Cube Travel Pro.
I'd been thinking about building a new bike which would have gears, bigger tyres, disc brakes etc but I thought I didn't really want deraileur gears so hub gear and if I was doing hub gear I might as well do belt drive and when I looked at buying all the bits I was pretty much at the price of the Cube just for components.
I did get pangs of buyer's remorse and was a bit uneasy about owning/riding such a 'mainstream' bike but I've really been enjoying it. I have done a couple rides over 100km which was way out of reach for me on a fixed bike.
It quickly became my 'goto' bike and have been riding it more than any others.
There's definitely things I don't love about it, it weighs a ton, its ali so I can't hack it up...but I'm now looking at modifying one of the frames I've previously built in order to swap all the parts from the Cube over to it.
I actually rode fixed yesterday for the first time in ages and man, I was broken after 30 miles!
The Cube is defintely a 'ride slow, die whenever' type of bike so the pace yesterday was a bit of a shock to the system but also a bit of a shock was not feeling like a failure for not enjoying riding fixed.
TLDR; I now have a non-fixed bike and love it.