new bike!

well, not really new, i have been collecting the bits for a while, but it's finally done. here's a picture.

those of you paying attention may have noticed that the bike is lacking a few things, like brakes and gears, that's because it's a track bike (although i do ride it on the street).

here's more information than you probably want about it:

frame	late 70's lugged steel fuji track frame
wheels	vintage high-flange campagnolo pista hubs laced to velocity aerohead rims, 4-cross pattern
cranks	vintage 165mm sugino super mighty track cranks
bottom bracket	sugino 75 superlap
pedals	vintage campagnolo record pista pedals
stem	sr 100mm road stem (will be replaced with a nitto negative-drop track stem at some point)
bars	nitto b123 cro-moly 38cm track bars

speaking of bikes, i have a problem (let me qualify that a little, some people might think i have a problem). i have a lot of bikes. five and a half to be exact.

but let me explain:

bike #1 is my road bike, a 2003 masi,

bike #2 is my old road bike, an early 90's dave scott centurion which i rebuilt as a winter/rain bike. it's sort of become n.'s bike because i'm trying to turn her into a crazy bike person.

#3 is my fixed-gear around-town bike, which i built uding the frame from my first-ever 'real bike', which i bought from performance bicycles back in the mid 80's.

#4 is the track bike.

#5 is a 1974 raleigh grand prix which i bought to convert to a fixed-gear, but it turned out to be too big so i'm going to sell it.

and the half-bike is an early 70's gitane frame that i got to convert to a fixed gear instead of the raleigh (i should note that if i ever build another fixie i'll sell the performance frame).

see? all perfectly reasonable and not-crazy.