i am so glad you got this, there is a small part of this bikes story you don't know!
this picture was taken a few months ago at my shop, obvs it's the same bike!
about a year ago i think, i was down the local brewery with some friends, they are in to bikes but they are mostly a little younger than me in their 30's etc, they think they know a lot about bikes, and they do, but me being a little older i know more, don't mean that in a big headed way it's just knowledge over time. anyway, that night i had turned up on my fat chance buckshaver, now none of these guys had heard of fat chance before, so they were crawling all over it. now with this bunch of guys they like to one up each other quite a bit, and sometimes i think they want to one up me . . . but i don't care, so they all went on ebay, facebook marketplace etc and they found a buckshaver available in southampton, then bought it, but that's not a big enough one up is it? it had to be better than a buckshaver . . . then this bike popped up, so one of them bought it, they proceeded to show it off a bit, but frankly the owner was too fat to have a chance of riding it! (see what i did there?) i don't mean that in a mean way, these bikes were made for racing and when like me you get a bit of a spread it's hard to be comfortable on them! this guy sold it, i heard back to the guy he'd bought it off.
but i'm pleased because this guy didn't buy it because he understands the relevance of the bike, the brand, it was just a tool for a one up situation amongst the group of friends. it's good that he decided to sell and it's good that someone like yourself got it.
