Now that I am finally finished with the bikes I have been working on lately, I find myself suddenly without projects! This is a very strange place to be for a person like myself, though I have complained and whined and wished to be in this condition for a long time...it seems so wonderful to not have anything putting pressure on me to 'get it done'...but I am having trouble not dreaming up some new mechanical undertaking just to feel normal.

Now, there is always the upgrade on my old Klein single speed (waiting on the new handlebars), and of course, the Volvos. There is strong desire to start really fixing up my patient, loyal, old cars, especially the 142; but there is just too much to be done on her, and eith one will take too much money for me to be able to start anything right now. I think I will have to wait a while to undertake a project of that magnitude. So except for the occasional adjustment or small repair, the creative outlets have been, for the moment, quieted; after all, the new bars for my single speed is only a matter of a few minutes. I want something serious.

A delicious and powerful daydream has been growing over the last few weeks to actually design and weld up my own bicycle frame. This is a really far-fetched idea, but I want to build a track frame imitating the American racing frames from the 1920s; beautiful, though somewhat primitive bikes---very simple, small, all steel, on the slightly heavy side, but oozing that 1920s enthusiasm and sense of invention.

I know, I know; dream on you say...