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You can definitely build one on a budget. The whole bike cost me around $300 to build. But almost all the parts are from swap meets or free stuff from the shop.

Took 20 minutes with a hammer and a drill. It may not be perfect, but it actually works!! The handling has improved drastically. Thank you all for the advice.

Winner winner chicken dinner! That's just a killer in my eyes. My knees are starting to give in and something like this is starting to look more tempting everyday. One of my favourite bikes on this thread for sure.

Thanks! that is quite the compliment!

basket is a joke. looks like it was installed on by a halfwit.

It's since been leveled out. There's really no good way to set it up without drilling the struts or buying new ones, but since the basket is temporary until I can a TCB/CETMA rack it's not worth the effort. And I can't raise the stem height since it's already at the min insertion. And it's not like I'm carrying a huge amount of weight with it anyways. It's just for small parts and pizza.

Here is my beater. It's a Concorde PDM Videocassettes team bike (you can see the remnants of the number plate hanger braze on on the top tube in the last pic) that was built by Pelizzoli. I picked up the frameset (with the Mavic headset) at a local swap meet for $120. The ziptie is to keep the headbadge from rattling around since it's kind of loose

So good

Hopefully these are on track:

Aw, I'm sorry. I saw them posted before and I thought of a picture of the whole gang would be nice.

http://i.imgur.com/qDlBD.jpg

It's less hiphop than it was before, but it looks a lot nicer.

Can my GT join the party again?

Not really HHSB but with all the GT team bikes posted (including another one of mine) I feel like I should post my newest purchase.

oh god what

Hahaha my GT... Let me at least explain why it looks the way it does. I'm planning to eventually piece together a Mavic track group (because that's how it would have originally been built up back in the day). But I wanted to get it ridable. And my shortest Cinelli stem is 120mm, which would be too long to use with my LA84's on this bike because of the long top tube. But I'm getting a 90mm 1E so it'll look better soon.

Dude that's shocking.

No redeeming features whatsoever.

shakes head in disbelief

Ahahaha

Is that a front disc hub? How are you going to use that as a rear track hub? I mean, you can get cogs that mount to the disc mount, but that doesn't do anything to help the fact that it's 100mm spacing, not 120mm, and it has a quick release.

The fork crown has no markings (and is also not drilled for a brake). The seatpost size is 27.2.

So you like it? :)

Well thank you. There are more pictures of it here http://www.pedalroom.com/bike/dbs-professionale-pista-7036 if you're interested.

So you're the guy who bought that frame! I kept watching that auction. I really wanted to buy it, but I own a DBS in almost the exact same size (it's 63x58) so it seems kinda silly to own two incredibly similar steel track bikes. The thing I noticed is that the blue seems to be the exact same color as my DBS. I know Cycleurope owns DBS, Monark, and Crescent (as well as Bianchi). Maybe they were made at the same time and just painted the same color (after they were shipped to up North from their respective builders). My DBS was made by Daccordi, and shipped to Norway where it sold as a DBS. Funny thing is, I also put one bid in on my DBS and got it for like 300 shipped. The bike looks great! Sorry if you've mentioned this already, but how do you plan on painting it?