Recs for a track bike?

Didier A. Depireux said:

What would y'all recommend for a nice fixee, fillet-brazed steel like the ones made by Kogswell
(who are out of the 54cm size at the moment)? It should be good enough for riding around in a
suburban environment.

Something that fits.

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Surly, cheap and effective.

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What would y'all recommend for a nice fixee, fillet-brazed steel

like the

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ones made by Kogswell (who are out of the 54cm size at the moment)?

It

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should be good enough for riding around in a suburban environment.

TIA,

Didier

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Any 20 year old road bike with horizontal dropouts. If you want a new one then call Tailwind
Bicycles & talk to the custom steel frame builder, Peter Dreesens @ 610.287.7870. Or try one of the
local shops in Baltimore.

And as Steve mentioned, all that matters is that it fits and has horizontal dropouts.

-Bruce

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What would y'all recommend for a nice fixee, fillet-brazed steel like the ones made by Kogswell
(who are out of the 54cm size at the moment)? It should be good enough for riding around in a
suburban environment.

TIA,

Didier

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What would y'all recommend for a nice fixee, fillet-brazed steel like the ones made by Kogswell
(who are out of the 54cm size at the moment)? It should be good enough for riding around in a
suburban environment.

TIA,

Didier

Fixed's are by nature cheap. An expensive frame on a fixed screams rich [censored]. Mine is a '72 Coppi
with whatever parts I could get at Recycled Cycles to make it go.

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Buy a bianchi pista. Possibly the best value in fixed gears. I think its like $550 for the complete
bike, which has some nice wheels. I don't sell them, but I can get one from the rep in my area.

CH

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What would y'all recommend for a nice fixee, fillet-brazed steel like the ones made by Kogswell
(who are out of the 54cm size at the moment)? It should be good enough for riding around in a
suburban environment.

TIA,

Didier

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What would y'all recommend for a nice fixee, fillet-brazed steel

like the

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ones made by Kogswell (who are out of the 54cm size at the

moment)? It

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should be good enough for riding around in a suburban

environment.

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Fixed's are by nature cheap. An expensive frame on a fixed

screams

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rich [censored]. Mine is a '72 Coppi with whatever parts I could get

at

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Recycled Cycles to make it go.

Right you are!! I've ridden several over the years, and there was

little

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if any difference in the performance between them.

Same with road bikes actually whilst I'm on the soap box. I have

more

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than a slight notion that if you stripped the paint and decals off your Colnago or Batavus
you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between it and any frame built by a reasonably
competent frame

mechanic.

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Although I do have a special attraction to the Breaking Away hero's steed 🙂

I've got a whole stable and while there are noticeable differences between each and every one of my
bikes I don't think it matters much.

I love my Vitus 992 Lotto Team bike. I REALLY love my Basso Loto. My Eddy Merckx Corsa 0.1 is a
superb riding bike. My Colnago Super is super and my Colnago Master is masterful but stiff as
concrete wheels. My Bottecchia LeMond painted bike rides really nice if that sucker would stop
breaking spokes everytime I get 50 miles from home.

My Atala CX bike is wonderful. My Santa Cruz Ultralite is super.

I can't think of a bad bike.