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@Velocio
I'm going to let it pass. In part so I can re-iterate why we have these rules, but Ian can finish with the sale providing he closes the thread on LFGSS after it has been sold.
This is why we have these rules:
If we just let people cross-post adverts, all forums and communities fill up with the same few adverts cross-posted everywhere. Effectively everywhere gets spammed.
A lot of the time, people aren't interested in the items. We've already chosen the communities and forums we wish to belong on, and these generally have types of bikes (tourers and randonneurs on CTC, common road bikes and commuters on Bike Radar, fixed and single speed here)... so we can avoid everything we're not interested in just by choosing where to look.
The classifieds on LFGSS are here to simply provide a mechanism through which fellow community members may sell to each other. Whilst it's public it was established in the spirit of "mates selling to mates", and as such if we're selling to the world why wouldn't we just put it on eBay and nowhere else? Mates rates are supposed to be in effect here, and for the most part they are.
If you post an item across, say, 4 different websites... would you tell all 4 you've sold it after the matter? Generally not, so every forum ends up with open adverts and no clue as to whether the item is still for sale, disposed of, or whatever.
And finally by having these rules we can keep the classifieds a high quality rather than high quantity source for fixed and single speed stuff. We can avoid all of the items that a few people busily cross-post (spam) over many forums.
So those are the reasons for the rules... the spirit behind it.
Now in this case, normally I'd delete the thread before you even realised... it would just be gone. But then I don't normally get the chance to have my mini-lecture on the matter.
So I'd rather leave the thread up, particularly as it's at least on-topic for this site, unlike the many Ridgebacks that normally get tangled in the spam queue.
I wish you luck with your sale, but please bear these rules in mind in the future and if you do get caught cross-posting stuff then you'll have the thread deleted straight away.
Cheers
David