Bike upgrading - Advice needed

[Summerinside]

Bicycle advice needed: :confused:

Having thrown my car away (traded for a 12er of NewCastle and $1) back in 03, I find that I am now a 100% bicycle commuter. I've got a number of bikes in the in the basement but was looking to upgrade my main commuter ride for bad-but-not-foul weather. (I've got a true POS for foul weather)

Currently, I'm commuting on a pretty-much-stock fixed-gear GT "GTB" track bike. I like the setup and the components are nice enough to make for a fun ride to work without attracting too much attention locked up downtown. It's a good bike but being a track bike it's A)only got the clearance to run the smallest tires and B)it's so incredibly stiff that I wouldn't want to spend more than an hour on it at any time.

I'd like to switch over to a road frame that would allow larger tires and the ride steel brings: naturally I'm ariving at a Surly CrossCheck. Ultimately I want to get into a single speed Crosscheck with more or less the same type of set-up I've got on the GT (bullhorn bars, flip-flop rear hub, etc..).

So here's the question: How should I get there? Should I

A) Sell the whole bike I'm riding complete, and go into the LBS and custom build the CrossCheck I'm thinking about.

B) Buy the Crosscheck frame, swap over as many parts as I can, then sell the GT frame/parts on Ebay.

C) Buy a complete CrossCheck, buy the extras I'd need to single speed it, "Fix" it myself, and sell the complete GT and the removed parts from the CrossCheck on Ebay.

Any thoughts? Considering out-of-pocket cost, what would you do?

Andy

[Tex]

it depends on your finances right now. I would go with C, if you have the expendable income to drop on a complete bike. Then sell your old bike and extra parts when the time is right. I think the best time to sell any bike is in the spring when most "normal" people start thinking about riding again.
But if cash flow is tight these days, I would go with option B. Buy the frame and as few parts as you need to in order to get it functional. Then over time, as money becomes available, or when a part breaks, you upgrade.
The biggest problem with option C for me is I buy the new bike telling my wife I'll put the money back in the spring. Then I never get around to selling the old bike, and I have another bike in the basement, and a big dent in the bank account.

That's my two cents.

[halls]

I like building up frames. So i would go with B. I think your track frame would be very marketable. You have most of the parts you want but you need wheels and a brakeset, tires , so maybe the complete bike would be better. With very little work your up and running ( riding) to work. :confused: