I should chime in too...I'm the one here tasked with doing the Competition justice. +2 props for Mark for this. We are both in the same town, so that worked out nicely. Right now the frame is hanging in my workshop (actually forcing myself to not do anything with it until I finish a road bike project I have for a 16 year old family friend). I have all the pieces to build it in any number of directions, but not sure what direction I'll go...I haven't gathered from the pieces of info folks have found how the Competition was originally built (if any were?). Oh, and yes, the photos don't do justice to the beauty of these frames.