You have created something unique and to your own liking, which may limit the market for selling it on. A 1992 Fire Mountain in good original condition might sell for anything from £50 to £100. Fully restored, maybe £150 on a good day. Yours may be worth more than that to the right buyer but its uniqueness is both its appeal and its Achilles heel. Inevitably, these days putting high-end components on a mid-range frame will result in a finished bike that is probably worth less than the sum of its parts in the tough market that retro bikes find themselves in today.
I am currently restoring a 1988 Cindercone with original splatter paint finish, it has almost all its original parts in salvageable condition and I only need to source new shifters, saddle and tyres to complete the build. This means that my total outlay in parts plus initial cost of the bike will be less than £100. I will probably put about 50 hours into the bike which I expect to be worth a maximum of £150 when completed, a return for my labour of perhaps £1 per hour! This is not a quick way to get rich!
I recently sold a 1991 Cindercone, fully retored to original spec and condition for £135, there were no takers here when I offered it for £100. I sold a 93 Fire Mountain a couple of months ago in very good restored condition for £80. The market is very tough.
The way I look at this, however, is that even if I end up passing a bike on for the price of the parts alone, I will have had the pleasure of restoring something to its former glory and it hasn't cost me a penny. With a build like yours I would look at the pleasure that you will have had in creating something unique and beautiful and either enjoy riding it or the warm feeling of passing on the pleasure of owning something special to a new enthusiastic and grateful owner who may not have had either the time or skill to create this for themselves.
