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Old 10-02-21, 07:18 AM
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You could get an old race bike with horizontal dropouts and build something similar to a classic without the track-ends. You could also try to find a carbon fork to build something similar to a lightening. There wasn't a lot of overlap between two bottle mounts and horizontal drop-outs, so you'd be looking at a pretty narrow late-80's, early-90's window. They're out there, but you might have to be patient to find the right one in the right size at the right price. Add a couple of bling parts, and you could easily spend much more than you would on a wabi complete. A friend of mine rides a Gunnar with track-ends and S&S couplers which is arguably a nicer FG road bike than the wabi, but it was a also a lot more expensive. Another friend of mine had an old race bike set up fixed and replaced it with a wabi complete last season.
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