Originally Posted by
bigbris1
OK, so you started out with an incorrect sized frame. Traded for another road frame since that was what you knew. Did you even try to find a track frame in your size? Or was it more about what the parts you already had would work on? Or money?
Actually, I pulled these parts off a kilo tt, which I bought and didn't care for. (The truvativ cranks and that stem look familiar, no? EDIT: oops. that stem wasn't stock on the kilo, I added it later).
My first fixed was a schwinn traveler conversion that rode great, but was a bit of a tank. I sold it and went to the kilo, which I ended up not liking. Then I got this frameset, put the parts from the kilo on it and put the kilo frameset on CL.
I've got no hate for anyone who prefers a track bike and can understand why people like them, but for the kind of riding I mostly do, a road frame is better. You don't seem to understand that not everyone rides their bikes the way that you do. Or, possibly, you don't understand the characteristics of different frame geometries. That's ok, but its more than a little ironic that in your first post you posit that people ride conversions out of ignorance.