Chris Boardman's TdF Prologue winning bike up for grabs on ebay
Chris Boardman TT Lotus bike
Can'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...
I was looking at that earlier...its still ironman-legal!
not all carbon is the same.
didn't take long for them to sell that one then 
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.
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
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