No you were perfectly clear just clueless.
Noone skids on the track.... ever. If anything any considerations regarding skidding should be for non-track fixies rather then track bikes. Also the width of the teeth has very little to do with how stiff the ring is anyway. The width of the non-toothed section determines that.
Yes so maybe if you said really old track bikes have circular tubing it would have been an accurate statement of what makes a track bike but not many new ones do.
My point with the headsets is that most track bikes don't have a record pista or durace track headset on them. They don't even make a different record pista headset anymore and the only reason the dura ace track exists as a seperate headset is because there is no other dura-ace headset. It was a jab at your silly notion that real people who care about performance instead of collectors with money to blow would only use a "track" headset.
Originally Posted by landrover4
Perhaps they command more money because they are more scarce, which may be true.
more likely it's because everyone and thier brother wants "vintage TRACK RECORD PISTA classic ITALIAN NOT DURA ACE NJS." If you look anywhere else track components are cheaper then road. See the difference in pricing between Record/Record pista or duraace/duraace track.
There was nothing in your post that accurately described what makes a track bike a track bike except in terms of some non-track riding collectors ideal. It's too bad that in your mind the vast majority of track bikes actually ridden on the track have been "messed up" by people lacking in taste.