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No problem, please do!
Yes I had a quote for the repairs, £700, thats forks (bent , I havent got a pic, not too bad though) top and down tube with a repaint. As much as I LOVE (ha) the bike I cant quite go to that money.
torqueless":j4n13b8j said:The bike I crashed was a 90's SLX, loved it.
Apologies for butting in- I just wanted to say:
You know that that Concorde is repairable? Have you stripped it down? It looks possible from the picture that that is a two tube (top & down tube) replacement. There must be some way of getting a frame builder to evaluate whether or not it is 'merely' a two tube replacement job or a more costly whole front end replacement job before committing to the work. Admittedly major frame repairs can work out pretty expensive, especially if you want them to put the paint back on afterwards, and you can almost certainly find a replacement SLX (or SL) frame for the same money (or less than) the repair would cost. I only mention this as an alternative since you used the 'L' word..
Strangely enough that damage does look like what you'd expect from front-ending a Reynolds 531db (rather than Columbus) frame- the bullet-proof forks unscathed but top 'n' down tubes completely f*cked just behind the head lugs. I'd have expected a Columbus fork to show some visible distortion.
No problem, please do!
Yes I had a quote for the repairs, £700, thats forks (bent , I havent got a pic, not too bad though) top and down tube with a repaint. As much as I LOVE (ha) the bike I cant quite go to that money.