Cipollini - Educate Me

[Dizeee]

Cheers Twisting, I am also going to look at the Wyndy Milla option.

[MadDad]

Wyndymilla are only 10 mins down the road from you, go and have a chat. Their bikes are built to order by Sarto and can be painted to your spec - so they can be as garish or subtle as you want.......black with a green stripe if it floats your boat!!

[Dizeee]

Yes I know of someone who bought a Massive Attack recently. I'm not sure they are for me having perused the site, a bit garish with the font and pink colours.

[TheFungle]

Dizeee said:

Yes I know of someone who bought a Massive Attack recently. I'm not sure they are for me having perused the site, a bit garish with the font and pink colours.

I'm with you on that, aesthetically they don't work for me at all and if you are spending a decent wedge then that is surely an important consideration.

Enjoy your search Dizeee, it's the one upside to having a bike written off being able to pick and choose at your luxury.

[Magic919]

It's not written off yet.

[agentnomad]

Have you considered a Pinarello Dogma 65.1

I have one and it is best described as a ver capable Grand Tour Bike, you will not get off it and say I am glad thats over because of the bike.

Rode the Etape du Dales and the last 60 miles was into a nagging head wind so 7:36hrs in the saddle and no pain other than fatigue from the ride, if that makes sense and helps.

[Dizeee]

Magic919 said:

It's not written off yet.

Oh yes it is.

[anonymous-user]

Venge. The answer to most questions.

[yellowjack]

TheFungle said:

Dizeee said:

Yes I know of someone who bought a Massive Attack recently. I'm not sure they are for me having perused the site, a bit garish with the font and pink colours.

I'm with you on that, aesthetically they don't work for me at all and if you are spending a decent wedge then that is surely an important consideration.

Enjoy your search Dizeee, it's the one upside to having a bike written off being able to pick and choose at your luxury.

Dizeee. Have a look at these chaps, in Camberley... http://www.ooeycustompaint.com/

It's not easy to find their name searching via WyndyMilla, but they are the 'custom' bicycle and motorcycle frame painters who put the colour onto the WM bikes. There's a whole gallery of their work on the site, and I'm sure they'd be more than happy to come up with a solution whereby you could replicate the finish of your 'written off' frame on anything you care to buy to replace it. Everything is possible. You just need to find someone with the skill and willingness to achieve it within your budget. First step is to contact them and bash out a brief, and an associated quote...

[MadDad]

I have seen some of his work, really is good regardless of how garish you think it is - down to the preference of the person commissioning it but the detail and finishing was second to none.....

[Dizeee]

I know of ooey but I don't want to spend loads on a paint job ideally, I would rather keep my budget to a quality frame and components.

The insurance inspector is due to look at my bike today and I am then going to collect it plus new front wheel, so at least I will have it back later.

I am a bit lost as to what to do really. I have heard nothing from anyone so far, her insurance and my solicitor have not made one phonecall to me, all be it my legal cover could take a month even to get into contact with me.

So tempted to just go out and buy something. Either way I am going to need a replacement and I am now starting to get depressed at the thought of having no decent bike for the rest of the year. I was doing so well in terms of mileage and pace and it all feels like it is starting to crash down around me now.

Yeah I have the Bianchi but it is nowhere near the same.

[richardxjr]

I know riding bikes isn't half as fun as buying them, BUT Be glad you weren't injured (or worse). Be glad you still have a decent bike compared to 99% of the world.
FFS man MTFU and just ride the Bianchi. Are you so whiney & impetuous about everything?

[Rocksteadyeddie]

Dizeee said:

I know of ooey but I don't want to spend loads on a paint job ideally, I would rather keep my budget to a quality frame and components.

The insurance inspector is due to look at my bike today and I am then going to collect it plus new front wheel, so at least I will have it back later.

I am a bit lost as to what to do really. I have heard nothing from anyone so far, her insurance and my solicitor have not made one phonecall to me, all be it my legal cover could take a month even to get into contact with me.

So tempted to just go out and buy something. Either way I am going to need a replacement and I am now starting to get depressed at the thought of having no decent bike for the rest of the year. I was doing so well in terms of mileage and pace and it all feels like it is starting to crash down around me now.

Yeah I have the Bianchi but it is nowhere near the same.

Surely if the inspector says you need a new from wheel and a pair of forks you're on a bit of a loser?

[Usget]

Dizeee said:

I was doing so well in terms of mileage and pace and it all feels like it is starting to crash down around me now.

"Slumming it" on your Bianchi for a while will surely mean that when you finally take delivery of your Viner Maxima or whatever, you'll take off like a rat up a drainpipe?

[Dixie]

Can I ask why your so certain that the frame will be written off? Is there any physical damage to it? I know you have to be careful with carbon after a crash but from the pic it could look like only the front wheel was run over by the car.

Is there anyway to test the frame?

[stongle]

Riding a nice bike = feel good factor, will ride more. With young kids + wife, you're not going to be short of reasons (nagging) not to go out for 4hrs on a Sat.

But...

I wouldnt let the state of the Bianchi get you down (other than its a Bianchi ;-) ); in order to get you're feel good factor; why don't you go out and mercilessly smash MAMIL Dentists on Dogmas. Wait for them behind billboards and smoke them up hills etc etc. Added hardman points for doing it in Foska, ALDI or mismatching kit.

Or with cash burning a whole and interim riding needs to be covered order some 60mm Aero clinchers from Wheelsmith, Enve bars and can of black spray paint from Halfords for the Bianchi and pretend you're a team / development rider on some prototype. If you can get some of the vinyl visual distortion wrap they stick on for testing new cars (not the sh*t that Xzhibit pimps) all the better. Wrap the forks and rear stays. You'll all in for 900 quid and will get more looks than other Italian quasi-exotica. This will work if you are not fat, can ride with a slammed stem and have appropriate saddle to bars drop.

The wheels and bars will be better than whatever you get on the Marek replacement (unless you pony up 10k plus); and you're riding street cred is retained.

[Dizeee]

Rocksteadyeddie said:

Surely if the inspector says you need a new from wheel and a pair of forks you're on a bit of a loser?

I am not sure how he can when the bike shop he is visiting to look at the bike have documented, and sent me the copy, clearly stating due to the level of impact plus transfer of force on the wheel, fork and frame, the entire frame is no longer trustworthy to ride and will need replacing. I have no front wheel anymore and I think the gear mech is broken at the back, so it is either a complete new full bike, or new everything else to go with what's left and working on the damaged bike. The cost plus helmet, gloves and wheel upgrade comes to 3.5k, so this should be a minimum of what I can expect to receive.

I have instructed a solicitor now in any case, seeing as communication has been so poor, so I presume they will go down the full route of damage, injury and time of work etc etc etc.

[Usget]

Dizeee said:

I have instructed a solicitor now in any case, seeing as communication has been so poor, so I presume they will go down the full route of damage, injury and time of work etc etc etc.

I hope that I've misinterpreted that post?

Dizeee on the other thread said:

I have a leg injury but it's nothing major and I fully intend to head out again tommorow on the winter steed

...then...

Dizeee on the other thread said:

The good news is my leg is fine today.

[richardxjr]

So that's why he's considering 6k+++ bikes. Nice.

[Rocksteadyeddie]

Dixie said:

Can I ask why your so certain that the frame will be written off? Is there any physical damage to it? I know you have to be careful with carbon after a crash but from the pic it could look like only the front wheel was run over by the car.

Is there anyway to test the frame?

An X-ray is the only way to be 100% sure I think.