Share 'anyone build up and race a pake c'muter?'

I am on the verge of making the leap to a 700c-wheeled 'cross bike for next year. I would continue tor ace Stompy (my 26"-wheeled Redline) at short-track races, but a very strong possibility exists for me to land a new pake c'mute/cross frameset for super-uber-cheap. Questions of anyone who has one: --how wide a tire can you run on it? (Don't care about UCI rules, I'm thinking semi-monstercross)…