Originally Posted by Sinfield
here's my two cents on the matter. Buy an older, cheap roadie and use the money you save to upgrade the components/ put STI style shifters on it/ put decent modern, light wheels on. You'll be in under the price for a hooked up new road bike and you'll have a great ride that might be slightly heavier than a contemporary frame.
Plus, you can run a quill stem on it to keep true to your old school track roots.
I disagree diregarding problems with the rear spacing there are still alot of expense in modernizing an old road bike.
nice old road bike: 450
sti shifters:150
wheels: 200
rear derailer: 20
cassette: 30
chain: 20
cables: 20
brake pads: 20
tires: 40
chainrings: 30
bartape: 10
tubes: 5
total: 965
For that price you could get a pretty nice new or almost new bike.