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The question is what do you want this bike for? The eBay example is for rich collectors only (as is £200 for a Record track chainset), if you MUST have a mint machine to hang on a wall fair enough! If you want to actually ride it and collect scratches to the frame and heel rub to the cranks £500 buys a lot of old bike. Saying that, I wouldn't disagree with £500 as a final offer, my suggestion was a starting punt. I am personally guilty of chucking about £800 at rebuilding a 36 year old (very rare) Gios I have had from new. Yep, I ride it on sunny days and fuck the scratches!

It appears to be in excellent condition, presuming it comes with chainset, bars and stem I would cheerfully offer £300 to £350.

And just as weirdly, Mrs B is somewhat chuffed to have her toy recognised by a random person she doesn't know. Immediately after that, I got a bollocking for not cleaning it this week....

Guilty as charged, MC Hammer!

Yep, I realise that, but nobody sane would race cross ungeared and the pros tend to use about a 40mm profile for a reason. That means this is for pootling about on slightly grubby surfaces and the deep sections are self-defeating....

Ah, an inability to spot awesomeness was always my weakness. Can anyone calculate the rpm necessary to gain an advantage from THOSE wheels on THAT gear (I suspect about 300)?

It's probably my fault, I have been drinking all day, but what the fuck is that for other than being expensive?

Considering his finest moment of 2018 was 3rd in a TTT, he was virtually retired already. Yet he remains approximately 72.3% as good looking as he thinks he is.

The good Prince was certainly responsible for Meiyin Wang riding Paris Roubaix in 2018. Bastard.

Indirect torture saves a fortune in laundry bills. Have you seen what bodily fluids can do to pristine white robes?

After using every grade of sandpaper and wire wool, plus many coats of oil, a finish has been achieved.

No, I don't.

It's the valve caps, isn't it? Actually, I think that build is no accident.

Supper cheap? There is a risk that his next late evening snackette could be ruinously expensive.

If you bought a car you could cheerfully leave in a gravel trap, you would spend 15k making it absolutely right to drive into a gravel trap. A decent 3.0 Z4 is less than 4x what you have just spent on your wheel arches.....

How about a Z4, as I have proved they can be had for less than an MX5 in good condition. Mind you, I bet you could make it expensive!

Drunken eBay buy of a plank of Olive from Spain. Much whittling and sanding later. Plenty of finishing work yet to be done...

A genuinely nice man, he let me fish with him when I was a spotty 14 year old at school in Norfolk.

Exactly as I hoped! Shite reviews, an appalling place, long overdue a visit! The grounds of my old school used to back onto said dump, we used to nick motorbikes from the hangars and race them round the track.

What or where is this Snetty Market of which you speak?

I'd better put the glitterball Goff up....

As you are having (and prevaricating about) the greatest engine that has ever been engined fitted in the Porsche, I sincerely hope you can rarely hear the stereo.

She Who Must Be Obeyed washes stuff, but only expensive stuff, until it fits either her at 47kg or a hamster. I am 78kg, not precisely race weight. New shirts for me are 'borrowed' until I forgot I bought them.

How long until someone mentions 'clay' and 'fire' in the culinary uses thread?

Only if it comes complete with the optional bloodbag and syringe.

Only good things come from Walsall. And my wife.....