You guys are crazy to check out fixed over road bikes. I'll turn around all the way for a track bike, but a really nice 60s/70s/80s road bike with nice tight derailleurs (since it's so flat around here anyone who knows runs like 12-21) and that Columbus SL look (the one that I can't quite describe - different from all the Reynolds 531 bikes that tend to get converted - something bridging the gap between nice old beaters and over-teched modern road bikes) will BREAK MY NECK. I'm talking Masi, Guerciotti, Colnago, Zullo, Merckx etc.

Something about downtube shifters and the aura of a clean friction shift really does it for me aesthetically. Track bikes are gorgeous and all, but if Selma Blair were standing over a Cannondale track with track stem/bars, tight chain etc. I'd check her out. If she were standing over a Masi Grand Criterium '77 I'd check out the GC.