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How did a giant picture of my bike get there? I was going to link to a thumbnail, but changed my mind and edited that bit out :s

VV - that's not a real Holdsworth is it?! 'Tis a chunky (alu?) version of my '76 Equipe. I want!

Can I get second dibs on a ladies-framed full bike if there is more than one going spare (55 or 56cm)? The more of a hack bike it is the better, cheers.

If need be I can pick up the frame in London and bring it back to Oxford on the train or bus (will cost a couple of ciders though). Am going to be doing that trip more than a few times over the next month anyway.

Just giving this a little bump, as I've not found anything yet, and could do with getting it sorted out soonish. Thanks.

Walworth Road at about 1:45pm yesterday - blonde guy, white frame (?) polo disc front wheel.

Thank you RPM - and to think I bothered to proof the ad before I posted :)

Thanks to everyone for their opinions. PM's will be returned to anyone who's waiting on a reply.

Yeah, I already have a saddle, seatpost, pedals, brake levers and a campag brakeset for it (that I'll swap onto my road bike if I have to) would just need a chain and some bar tape to finish it.

The bigger issues are that I can't afford to insure it, and I'm moving to London in October and finding a place that will let me keep 3 bikes in the hall is going to be tricky. Plus I'm scared to death of the idea of leaving it locked up in London out of sight. In short I like the frame too much to ever be able to sensibly use it :( I want to keep it so badly though.

A genuinely heartbreaking sale for me, as I’ve spent most of this year waiting to be able to afford/have space to build this up, but it’s not going to happen now, and I can’t bare to have this stuff sat around doing nothing anymore, so:

Bob Jackson Vigorelli:

• 52cm (c-to-c).
  
• Brand new (ordered by me, and delivered in May), but never been built up.
  
• Light metallic graphite grey, with pearlescent white head tube, seat tube bands and lug lining. It's (subtley) quite sparkly in bright sunlight.
  
• Drilled for a rear brake (and internal brake cable routing) so can be run singlespeed or fixed.
  

• Comes with a brand new 1" campagnolo record headset fitted.

    Cost ~£480 (silly money I know) with the extra paintwork, brake bridge and headset. A new OTP vigorelli is £345 (which you can't buy at the moment as I hear Bob Jackson have closed their books for a while). Somebody please make me a sensible offer (preferably between those two figures) and stop me agonising over trying to justify keeping it.
  

Fixed/free wheelset:
Ambrosio hubs laced to Ambrosio rims (decals taken off). Specialized inner tubes, newish gatorskins, 18t fixed sprocket and lockring, 18t freewheel. Bought from pj earlier in the summer, but never yet been used by me. £100.

Sugino RD** crankset:**
Brand new, never fitted. Silver. Cranks 165mm, chainring is 48t and 1/8". £42

Sugino bottom bracket:
To match crankset - Brand new, never fitted. English thread. £14

Cinelli XA stem:
130mm. 1" quill, as new (no marks). £15

Ambrosio drop bars:
To suit the stem above (26.4mm clamp). 38cms wide. A tiny bit scratched near the clamp from where I tried them with the stem. £6

Photos of the above on request, but they are all fairly standard looking things. All items located in Oxford at the moment, but I'll be in London on Saturday, and can bring things with me on the train if anyone wants them.

Thanks.

Is the Bianchi frame and forks only, or whole bike?

Sorry it's not ss or fg, but I need to get a hack road bike (geared, complete) sorted out for commuting around London. Open to a complete beater, or a nicer frame that has seen better days. Would like STI shifters rather than anything too retro on the gearing front though. Frame size around 55 or 56cm, budget up to £200. Cheers!

MrSmith is right, the eurostar ticket is valid to any other train station in Belgium on the same day - last week I went from Brussels to Zingem (via Ghent) on my eurostar ticket. You do need to buy a bike ticket for the connecting train though (€5 to any destination I think). The canal paths and cycle tracks around Ghent are great, really wide and new smooth tarmac, and there are the Ronde van Vlaanderen routes signposted everywhere. (Plug: http://www.lepuretlimpur.be/)

annerly hill is bad, primarily because the only time i ride it is at the end of a 75 miler.

Same (only for me it's at the end of a paltry 30 miler). Also have to get up the other side, to the top of College Road from the station at the bottom, with zero warm up (though it's clearly not as impossible as I first thought because I managed it in heels on my road bike last week.)

It's called the Alley Cafe, my best friend from school used to be a chef there, cool place :)

What brand is the perforated bar tape?

The number of people riding ss and fixed in Oxford has increased a lot this summer, there's Langsters, Filmores and conversions all over town - I live in a sleepy side street in East Oxford and in addition to my 3 neighbours who ride fixed there's a Trek T1 randomly chained to the lampost at the end of my street tonight, in the same spot where a Mercian and Gios conversion were parked a few weeks ago.

Sigma in Kingston upon Thames have had a couple of old S Works Langster frames on sale for a while now (I looked at the 52cm frame a couple of months ago):
https://www.sigmasport.co.uk/app/secure/ProductDetails.aspx?FamilyID=2140

Shinscar if they are definately 26.4mm clamp then I'll take them please. Will PM to sort money.

I potentially need some drops with a 26.4mm clamp diameter to go with the cinelli stem I just bought. Don't mind if the bars are scratched etc. as they are going to be fully taped anyway, so the more bargainously priced the better really. Can pick up from either Oxford or London. Thanks.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/

For 120mm spacing?

What if the bike is clearly abandoned (rear wheel gone, stays twisted, chain orange with rust), but it's firmly locked to a railing on a pavement? What are the ethics of removing the nice vintage lugged top bolt stem from it? (rest of the bike is shite).

Has anyone seen the welding on a 735TR in real-life? Is it crap too? The 735TR is twice the price of the 720TR, but still ridiculously cheap at £315 for frame, carbon forks, carbon seatpost and headset...

http://www.leaderbikestore.com/pd_ld_735tr_2008_track_frame.cfm

Yeah, my saddle was delivered within a day or so for me too, which was nice.

I bought a white spoon from here last week, couldn't find anywhere else that had them in stock:
http://www.flcuk.com/Accessories/Saddles/Charge-Spoon-Saddle.htm?P182-S31-