MyBikeGotStolen - You reminded me! I got an email reply from Nashbar:
" NA-FRR is currently out of stock, but we are still taking backorders for it. Next delivery of stock on these is expected for 11/30/07. "

ben_san - that check is pretty.

So many practical work-a-day bicycles posted! Such diversity and creativity.
I love it. Here is my mutation:

Although I have found three road bicycles for very little money (main criteria), they are all too big (2-64cm, 1-62cm) for me. I am too cheap to pay any real money, have instead relied on keen eye and luck. Not enough luck.

To appease my hankering to roll on tall skinny wheels I crammed 27 inchers on a mountain bike frame. Some ghetto engineering yielded front brakes. A couple new but mostly junk parts. Rack and basket are latest additions and now I am terribly fond of this thing.



Brakes and tire clearance. That is about as close as can be without rubbing.