I was looking at the SA5 with the drum brake, looked kinda big, plus the bridge on the frame is set up for a brake. If it was a repaint, I'd fill the hole and consider the drum brake option.
My feeling is the 5spd will make for a nice daily rider and the s3x will be alota fun but I'm concerned about the bb hieght. I noticed the older fixed grear bikes often had bb hieghts of 11" to nearly 12", this frame on 700's has just over 10". I can see myself catching a pedal and sliding out!
Noglider; I have a Ritchey Areo Roads wheelset and Campy brakes in good conditon and I'm plannig on butcher a B-17 so I only need the crankset and hub. Sturmey has a nice Track crank set I'd like to use with the hub so the Bike Direct buy would only net me the hub and chain, not worth it to me.
Yup it's a bigin! I picked up the frame from a little old lady who rode to the grocery store and church on Sunday, she said it was hardly used. ( I over paid for it on eBay, It looked so prestine I lost all control)