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Ever wondered what a Ragley Trig looks like if you chop a section of the down tube out?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334039753139
Too neat to be a thief. A novel way of voiding the warranty? Surely any frame damage could have be repaired on a steel frame.
I know someone here will have all the answers...
Probably a warranty requirement for a replacement frame that requested the existing frame to be rendered unusable.
Too neat to be a thief.
Then there’s the minor point that it’s being sold by Wheelies bike shop
The bike was likely returned under warranty and the whole exchange done by photos so when ragley sent a new frame they would have wanted photos so it's quite common to cut a section out or cut it I half.
CRC once asked me to cut the straps off a helmet I had rather than return it.
I'd guess it was a bike they started building before discovering a crack / dodgy weld / dent. They render the frame unusable to satisfy Ragley (who replace it), but they're left with a half-built bike cluttering up the place.
It all looks box fresh though so potentially a good deal for someone wanting to build up a frameset.
You'd need to BYO frameset, rear mech, cassette, cranks, chain.
Something to consider...
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/1992-slingshot-team-issue-now-that-was-a-bike.html
+1 on warranty - common to destroy something that has been subject to warranty or rejection for poor manufacturing.
There’s a matching frame in the similar items too I think
Doubt it was warranty, they’d have moved all the parts across to the new frame and they are selling other brands of bike on there cut in a similar way.
It is odd tho!
I think they are the shop used by a lot of insurance companies, my mates Spesh fell off his bike rack and thats where it went at the insurers request. They put all the parts from his old bike on a newer frame, including the shock which didn't fit as Spesh had changed the length. Ended up getting another warranty frame through our LBS when he took it in wanting to know what the clunking noise was!!!
I think they are the shop used by a lot of insurance companies, my mates Spesh fell off his bike rack and thats where it went at the insurers request. They put all the parts from his old bike on a newer frame, including the shock which didn’t fit as Spesh had changed the length.
how they got that gig and how they manage to continue to do that kind of work is a mystery. Insurers must have been made aware of how incompetent they are (by more people than me I’d imagine)
They maybe stolen and recovered - ie they’ve turned up after the insurer has replaced / paid out. That means the bike is now property of the insurance company so wheelies are probably tasked worth selling them off.
Whether they are cutting them as part of that deal or whether the recovered bikes were already cut who knows - no matter how good your bike lock is it’s quick and quiet to cut through a frame if stripping for parts is the thief’s intention