Originally Posted by Six jours

What I'd really like to see, FWIW, is a close copy of a TdF bike from the teens or twenties. Something with slack angles - maybe 68 parallel - and with angled dropouts to handle a flip-flop hub: bigger FG on one side for the flats, smaller SS on the other for ups and downs. Set up for caliper brakes front and rear, and with decent steel tubing of standard diameter. That would make for a very useable "real world" FG with some retro cool.

The closest I've seen is the very cool Pashley Guvnor, but it still misses the mark: 28" wheels, dropouts parallel with the ground, and (on my size) a useless double top tube.