reading this thread makes me feel okay about my recent dive into bike buying. I was shopping for my next bike, found a great deal on a serotta CRT thats fits awesome. i thought wow, i can make this a do it all bike. then one starts to try and build a do it all bike when the perfect french Rando bike comes along. i just got offered a Berthoud Randonnuese full bike in my size (maybe one size small?). damn it. this is the sort of bike that does not ever become available here. So reading some of your posts where they start "i only have 5 bikes" makes me feel okay about buying a second bike. Plus it fits a lot of the mentioned criteria, it fits (maybe), its rare, its gorgeous, its functionally different, it makes me smile, i want it.
thanks, i thought about it all last night, now i have some clarity. Bike number 2 is gonna be mine!