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@veLLo
I have this if that fits your requirements:
It's an old Dawes mountain bike frame (reynolds 500 cro-mo, lugged) that I found and converted to a fixed gear beater (using 700c). I do not use it anymore...
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/4628/dawesbeaterfr.jpg
It comes with a headset that needs replacement because is has a tight spot (you can not cycle with no hands because of that) unless, like I did, you consider that it doesn't matter as it is only a beater.
BB could do with a servicing as well, but once again, for a beater, it was fine to my standards.
It also comes with a mis-matching crankset: Shimano Exage on the drive side, that you can not remove unless you attack it with an angle grinder because the thread is f**ked and no crank remover can get it out, and a basic Stronglight left arm.
Finaly, it has vertical drop out, so you would need to use magic gear... I used 42X16 with a half link and chain tension was perfect.
After all the above, if you are interested, I would like £10 for the frame, as it took me a lot of work to shave properly all the braze on bits... The bottom picture shows how it looks like once built...
Ah damned!! I forgot... Size is:
Center of BB to top of seat post tube = 55cm (but as you can see the top tube is lower so I suppose you can take off 2cm from that...
Center of seat tube to center of head tube (top tube lenght I mean) = 56cm
Actually, is that a lot bigger that what you need...?
Hope that helps anyway...
Loic