eBay and Craigslist finds

Thank you hippy.

I was about to follow up with the comment that from my ancienttwo-wheeled history these are track ends.. not drop-outs.

Drop-outs are so-called for a very obvious reason. This type of stuff riles me.

And all this 'conversion' talk is conjecture and speculation, as I said to DB in my response: "What difference it would make even if it was a converted road frame, provided the 'conversion' had been done by a reputable frame builder?"

I have 3 frames at Mercian for restoration right now, one of which is having the rear brake bridge removed and repositioned to facilitate running 700c wheels with long reach Campag calipers. Mercian's workshop have willingly taken on the job and I trust them. What's to say this hasn't been done here?

I stand by the fact that this is a rideable classic - it's an old English frame, not some robot built badge-engineered Taiwanese thing.

I've used terms like "track" and "messenger" as search terms to enable interested buyers to find the bike when searching. I don't honestly believe anyone buying this will be using it as a track bike in the same way that I don't suppose many Bianchi PISTA's make it onto a track for an entire season.

There is in fact there's another angle to this frame which I supports it legitimacy as original and not converted.

But thanks for actually replying with decent input.

Dogs has probably built more bikes this year alone (for his own pleasure) than your little business exterprise has built all told. If I was you I would stick around listen and learn. Your copywriting is spot on but if you are going to make money on e-bay you have to be an expert in the product you sell. If had bought that bike for £600 and it arrived with dodgy fucking ends that would be your seller rep up in smoke. Don't take it personal just accept that we know what the fuck we are talking about.