Hooooray!! Another Lotus!!!!!!!
My unique seems to have fallen into the same black hole as your legend the last 1/4 century LOL. While I did want to do the choppy choppy initially, I decided to keep it stock. If a decent offer came along from someone who'd keep it nice, then I would sell it as I did find a different project to Fixie-fy, but it just feels nice having it around.
I like the idea of the mustache bars and barcons myself. I'm not much of a finnesse rider so when I ride the Unique, I have to be gentle and remind myself I'm not on my cyclocross bike LOL.
Sounds like the bikes have a very similar spec.
RJ