Well, actually DH happened upon this frame at Gary Hobbs' store (where I got all my bikes, gvhbikes.com - Gary died of leukemia last year and Tom's running the shop now. Amazing how many TNT rides I coached on Gary's bikes and then he goes and dies of the stuff.) I can't get a picture in here that is not HUGE. It's a Jeff Lyon rogue frame, bright blue.

"This is a handmade, fillet brazed frameset with sport/touring geometry, fender braze-ons, and clearance for larger tires."

I am hesitant to do steel here, at the coast, given my clumsiness, etc. But I really can't get a brevet bike with the right geometry in a different frame material that I can afford/justify. The frame's not too heavy - under 4 lbs and the fork is light. So we could probably bring it in around 24 - 25 pounds. The Schmidt hub will add some weight. But it's just the best set up for lights I have seen for long distance riding. The Moab on the helmet was fine for the 600k, but I could see it getting to be dicey at longer distances.

So we're looking at maybe getting Tom to build it up for us. I would put a schmidt hub on it. It's so weird to be looking at buying a bike when I can't even ride for 5 more months. Surreal.

On the brevets -

Everyone tells me the Davis brevet series is the one to do. I would like to throw in an extra 600k, maybe SF's. PBP is out because we will probably do a family trip to France next year and I couldn't go back 3 - 4 weeks later. I heard some amazing stuff this weekend about PBP, and will definitely do it one day. Probably in 2011.