For Sale: Greek Legend for sale?

Hello all, long time follower, first time poster. Great community you've got here, quite an achievement. I've got a few parts that I'm planning on clearing soon, just wanted to test the water (as in make inevitable mistakes) with this ad.
This is an old 1955 Hercules New Yorker which I paired back to a sort of cafe racer style(?) after the bearings on the old wheel set gave way (not a bad innings for 56 years of use). High flange, 32h Miche Primato hubs, 14g spokes, Mavic MA2 front & Mavic Open Sport rear. Sanitized tyres, Pro on the front & an All Condition on the rear (with quite a bit of wear). Bluemels Lightweights,16t Miche fixed cog, Brooks Pro saddle (which is plastic), pop out Suntour 9cm stem, touring bars, cork bottle grips, mx leaver & Weinmann caliper, with some brake blocks. Chain is slack due to it being new about 4 months ago, just gotten to that breathing out stage, which I'll obiously correct. Think that covers it but questions welcome, plus any advice on what I could do better or not so much. Cheers, Simon.

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Price and size!

ah yes, was bound to be a school boy one wasn't it. Thanks Tom, it's 21" frame, 90 front, 120 rear with english thread BB & 25.4 post. Rims are 700c btw. I'm open to offers, just want it to go to someone that will enjoy it.

Just for ref, it's set up for me, 5ft 6in, 30 inside leg.

apt username

^ hot on the apt usernames tonight Ben!

i know right? they're like buses i guess

Darn tooting too small. Best of luck!

not to worry Tom, thanks for the interest.

very nice bike
where is the bike?

next to a white brick wall with blue trim. can you not see it?

I see the white brick, but can't see you ..... :-)

goodness me, there's some people with time on their hands here.

Thanks for the interest rui oliveria, I & the bike (but not that particular wall) are in Hackney, 2 mins from Hackney Downs station.

Still no price. I wonder if it is too much to ask politely for that rather than make a fuss about people not reading posting rules!

I play the 3shells

fatoldbloke, I'm flattered, but no thank you.

I'm not sure i fully understand northlondonlight's post, but I think he's getting stressed about there being no advertised price. I did read the rules for classifieds before posting, this is what I found;

"Advisory (not rules):
Update the thread (or close it) when your item has sold and say how much it has sold for.
Put a price in the first post, with ONO (Or Nearest Offer) if you're willing to negotiate."

...so more of a guideline than a hard fast rule (the sort fatoldbloke likes eh), however I dont want people loosing sleep over things like this so I am willing to play ball if thats what everyone does?

I'll check with David. Thanks again!

Greek legend for sale? Iliad or Odyssey?

We had this debate a few weeks ago about stating prices and Hedges is correct....it went to arbitration and that was the outcome.

ooo, thas more like it. IIiad was Achillies & Agammenmon wasn't it, so must have been Odessy, unless he was a one hit wonder & never actually featured in such wiehty texts (thanks Homer). Christopher Logue sum's the IIiad up quite nicely in War Music was it?

good god, spelling & grammar drops off a cliff when using these forums doesnt it. Apologies.

DK confirmed Marxistfixie's view

(thanks btw)

Without a price guidance, I offer 50€...
advise me

One Ajax to go....no PSV.

interested on this, you have pm

Without a price guidance, I offer 50€...
advise me
christ. Righto, you win!! Offers around the £150 mark but deals to be done for the righ person. Cheers.