Most of these kinds of machines are cobbled together from whatever parts one can round up. My ride is no different.

I've combined an old, steel Trek frame with some mis-matched 175 mm (I usually ride 180s on my other bikes) mountain crankarms, the only loose-ball bottom bracket on ANY of my bikes, some ancient, sealed-bearing Specialized hubs, the longest stem I could lay my hands on at the time, some Campagnolo brake levers that the hoods were rotting off of and a pair of Cinelli TT/cow horn bars that were kicking around in my parts box.

I've topped it off with the cheapest model of Speedplay road pedals available (the X/3), some nylon Specialized 'Mountain' water bottle cages (because they were in the junk/closeout bin at some shop and can't hold a large bottle worth a damn), a 'Strong' seatpost (really - that's that brand), an original Turbo saddle, some absolutely generic Dia-Compe long reach brakes (to reach the 700c rims on a frame designed for 27") and one, um Chris King headset. But this is ONLY because I had it on my first mountain bike when everything was 1"... Really. The chain is pieced together from all the scraps I saved sizing new chains to my other bikes. Scraps = free.

Is there any fancy stuff? Well sure! How could there not be, it's my bike after all... If you look closely, you'll notice that the frame has split-stops on the top tube. VERY after-market. And with the size of frame I ride, the less housing/flex the better with my cheap-ass calipers... If you look even closer, you'll see a bunch of split-stops on the left AND right seatstay. I used to morph this bike every other month. One day it would have a derailleur (with the cable run along the toptube and down the seatstay like a mountain bike) and the next it had an internal drum brake on the rear hub (hence the cable stops on the left seatstay). Lastly, you can see one nylon bolt on the left fork blade. I have braze-ons for just one Blackburn Custom Lowrider rack on this bike. Why? Because I decided that one bag would carry enough stuff. And it usually does, you just can't ride no-handed. Damn, no wonder this idea didn't catch on...

Lastly, because of the TT bars and because I didn't want huge loops of brake cable housing hanging around (it gets in the way and the extra flex makes your brakes even more mushy), I ran the housing out of the bottom of the levers. You can see the lead cable ends sticking out of the tops of the levers. Simple really, and it solved the problem.

Here it is from the right side

Here it is from the front

From the rear

The cockpit

The rear cog

The plastic Silca Impero pump with metal Campagnolo head - just because I had it.