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the 'drilling' on the kalavinka is because it is a 'training bike'
NJS track bikes don't have brakes
the Whitcomb looks to me to have a 73 - 73 geometry which means that it is almost certainly built for the road, the fact it has two brakes and a bottle mount confirm this to me, sure you can ride it on the track, but you ain't going to 'race' it, not if you want to win, a 'road track' can be ridden on both the track and the road, a 'track bike' is for the track only
I know people who ride converted fixed wheel road bikes and call them 'track bikes'
It doesn't mean that they are 'track bikes' though
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_bicycle