Jon Kendziera makes Jonny Cycles, handmade steel goodness out of Madison, Wisconsin. Grab a pile of cash ($1575+ track, $1850+ road) and get on the list. He's also got brilliant lugged stems to tide you over, and everything has stunning detail to paint and stainless. This one, for his painter, won the "Best Track Frame" at the NA Handmade Bicycle Show 2006, which ain't no small accolade. In addition to stainless head tube, it's got three "vents" in the top tube, not unlike a Buick Skylark from the 50s. See more of it here.
Cool guy. He once emailed me loads of useful advice on fork trail for a kids' cyclocross bike, and I wasn't even buying anything from him. Plus he won the track skid comp at the first (fixedgeargallery) Fixed Gear Symposium, blowing a tire in his 500'+ run.
Seeing bikes like this make you want to learn how to braze frames, yet at the same time, you realize you need jigs, experience, and a stunning painter...so you're better off saving up for one.
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