Well last week I wandered into Bicycle revolution up here in Brissie and found myself a roadie which I have since converted to SS. It is nearly finished but I have not posted pics here yet.
Today (on the advice of a bicycle rep I ran into at Ridgways) I gave Caboolture Cycle Sports a call to enquire as to whether they had any track frames lying around. They answered that they had only 1 left and did not seem to excited about it or their ability to offload it.
ME: I am looking for a larger frame.
THEM: This one is pretty big.
ME: I would be looking for a 58cm or bigger.
THEM: This one is 60cm I think.
ME: It is a PROPER track frame??
THEM: Yes, proper track ends and all. It is Reynolds 531 steel and comes with a headset, fork and seatpost. It also has a saddle but it does not look very comfortable.
ME: How much??
THEM: $200 as is.
ME: Hide it out the back. I will be there soon.
Turned out it is a Van Werkhoven World Champion Frame and fork with Campagnolo dropouts on the frame and Gippieme dropouts on the fork. It has Hoffy stamped into the BB shell and came with a Spidel Stronglight headset and a Sakae 27.2mm seatpost which I think may be too big and should be a 27.0mm judging by the super tight fit.
My measurements are that it has a 58cm C-C TT and a 60 cm C-T ST.
So. Anyone want to give me beer for the Brown frame and fork??
Brown was going to be street fixie but I have another roadie with horizontal dropouts that I have made SS and that can easily be converted to fixed for road if/when I want.
Due to this and the ever shrinking bike/office I think I want to offload the brown one.
