Originally Posted by gaucho777

I cut my chops on mid-80s bikes, but my interests have been going backward in time. Most of my recent acquisitions have been from the early 70s. I would like to add a bike from the 50s or 60s. My fleet consists of bikes from France (3), Great Britain (1), Japan (1), Switzerland (1), and Taiwan (2). I don't own an Italian bike, so that's an itch that needs to be scratched. And I'd love to find a U.S.-built bike (an Eisentraut or Carlsbad Masi would be high on my list). Oh and I read through the "post your CX bike" thread this morning; I don't have one of those, so I'm hankering to add a cross bike as well. And a bigger garage while I'm at it!

I'm not interested in one of those indistinguishable (to me) cookie-cutter, black/white/red, off-the-shelf CF frames. That said, I'd like to have a new custom-built KOF bike (Kirk, DiNucci, Bruce Gordon, come to mind) with Campy SR-11...but not if I had to pay for it.