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OPINION
Chris Boardman's TdF Prologue winning bike up for grabs on ebay
Wed, Oct 07, 2009 17:01
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Chris Boardman TT Lotus bikeCan't vouch for the provenance of this machine but hey, there aren't that many Eddy-Merckx-branded Lotus TT bikes from the turn of the century. Even if it's not Boardman's one, £1700 looks like a snip 
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Eddy-Merckx-Time-Trial-Racing-Bike_W0QQitemZ170391...
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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possibly, yeah. good blog post here, chris used to sell his bikes on locally to help the young talent...
http://bicycledesign.blogspot.com/2006/06/hotta-time-trial-bike.html
Isn't this actually a Hotta TT700 (ebay blurb calls it a 'hotter'), rather than a Lotus? I'm aware that Mike Burrows had something to do with Hotta - probably around this time in 1999 - having worked with Lotus much earlier to produce the Barcelona Games bike in 1992, the original naked carbon 'JPS' one we're all familiar with.
didn't take long for them to sell that one then
I was looking at that earlier...its still ironman-legal!