Replace my stollen bike

da1esman

A fortnight ago I had my garage broken in and had my beloved 21'' Joe Waugh 531 steel framed road bike stolen plus my Giant mountain bike and the wife's Gary Fisher mountain bike. Plus a large tool box of which the hack saw was used to saw through my security bolting the bikes to the wall. The police informed and paper work completed for insurance. Insurance have said I should have not kept a tool box in the garage allowing the culprits to release my bikes, so they have quoted £300 for all the bikes. So have searched the web for a steel framed bike as I really enjoy riding steel but every thing is well out of my price bracket even with me adding extra to my insurance pay-out.

So with the Insurance and me adding maybe £100 more, what out there in that price bracket. Not looking for a carbon frame.

Other than my mountain bikes not bought another bike apart from the JW bike

Yossie

Planet X?

declan1

Insurance companies are made up of complete money-making arseholes. You're not even allowed to keep tools in a bloody garage anymore?

TKF

Marzipan makes a terrible frame material. Very poor stiffness to weight ratio in my experience.

I would suggest at least metal or carbon fibre if budget allows.

RDW

TKF wrote:

Marzipan makes a terrible frame material. Very poor stiffness to weight ratio in my experience.

I would suggest at least metal or carbon fibre if budget allows.

me-109

Stollen, you say? Piece of cake!


Sorry, couldn't resist! Thieving bar-stewards … and the ones that took the bikes.

noiseboyfeetman

If you haven't already you might want to check with your insurance company how they work. I had my bike stolen and I had to get it from Wheelies Bike Replacement or I lost a percentage of the claim, quite a few insurance companies use them I'm led to believe.