Help Needed!

Hi,

My name's mike and I'm a newbie to this place - but I was directed here by a good friend who may or may not be a member (I don't know).. Basically I the first fixie I bought (a surly steamroller) was nicked after a few months from outside the national gallery on picadilly! I'm back to riding around on a battered touring bike who is really on his last wheels.

I really can't afford to spend in excess of £600 on another bike just yet - but I'd like to find a good fixie to start again and maybe in time I can build up in my own image. Problem being most of the bikes I see on gumtree or ebay are either

A) well out of my price range
B) rustbuckets
or C) the standard bricklane style fixie road bikes that cost a tenner to make and are sold for £180...

I'd appreciate your generous help in possibly pointing me in the right direction..

Cheers,
Mike

You can start by no longer referencing bikes anthropomorphically