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Dealing with the insurance company after a car crashes into your bike

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Danneaux:
Kevin Sayles has returned to Woodrup, Andre. You'd probably enjoy seeing his Flickr site: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin_sayles_bikes/ You can still see some of the featured elements he included on the bikes he built for Thorn in his present full-custom builds.

All the best,

Dan.

martinf:
My old 700C lightweight is a Woodrup. First new bike I bought myself, in 1977, but the only original parts remaining are the frame and forks.

Andre Jute:

--- Quote from: Danneaux on May 14, 2017, 07:32:01 am ---Kevin Sayles has returned to Woodrup, Andre. You'd probably enjoy seeing his Flickr site: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin_sayles_bikes/ You can still see some of the featured elements he included on the bikes he built for Thorn in his present full-custom builds.

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Learned something new at Sayles' site: "bilaminate". https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin_sayles_bikes/albums/72157624254639601 I'd pay for custom lugs like those. In fact, about 10 years ago when I was looking for a custom builder to build a multitube stainless design bike of my own, such filleted external butts, though mine were doubled i.e. trilaminate. were an intrinsic part of the design; pity I didn't know about Kevin Sayles when I was so desperate I was even talking to American braziers, which would have added a very stiff shipping charge to the bike. But with my present mileage expectations, ordering a custom bike from a master craftsman would make me feel like those poncey "collectors" who own fine things that they don't use merely to keep them out of the hands of "the less deserving".

Well, then, the maker of Bill's bike is alive and working at a workshop that boasts an established bespoke bicycle service http://www.woodrupcycles.com. Were me, I'd first enquire whether Thorn has spares or a NOS set of the required tubes, and I'd ask whether they want to subcontract the whole job (stripping the bike, getting the frame and fork made, assembling the components on the painted frame and fork), rather than handle it myself with Woodrup. That would be the best available guarantee of both originality and integrity.

Bill C:
Hi Andre
i have seen the woodrup site a few times, I also like the lugsets they do, the llewelyn site is another worth looking at (if your down under) as he does some nice work

things aren't all bad on the bike front as i have built up the Thorn "Thingy" i now know what it is as it used to be owned by another member and he let me know the back story on it
it IS a Kevin Sayles frame, where as the fillet brazed xTc i don't think is, the xTc did have letters after the serial number i think it was gt? but the frame isn't here so i can't check

I'll upload a few pics of the new ride asap before it gets trashed  ;)
I have been out for a few miles on it and am really pleased with it, can't ride too far as it has a new team pro eroica and it hurts  ::) after 30 miles it kills
must admit i hadn't intended building it up for a while so some components are a temporary compromise, but it was already sprayed and after getting the xTc written off i needed something to take my mind off things,
i still need some xt760 or 770 dual control shifters as at the mo it's fitted with rapidfire shifters (shudder :o ) also needs a different cassette as with the 13/28 Miche the chain  fouls the seatstay on the 13th cog probably try a 12/27 shimano, built it up as just a pure summer bike no racks guards or trappings

must admit having another frame/bike waiting in the wings really took the sting out of the accident
atb Bill

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