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i'm quite interested in this from a shop in germany does any one have any experience of buying in germany, i'm guessing as part of the eu, any warranty is transferrable but would appreciate an impartial view
thx
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Why not ask Nicolai?
- so it *is* a real bike shop, rather than someone set up to look like a bikeshop.
Normally warranties are handled by the local distributor, so if there were any issues you'd probably have to ship it back to Germany.
Interestingly - from the Nicolai-uk website :
http://www.nicolai-uk.com/index.php/warranty-and-faq/nicolai-warranty-five-years/
- the (UK)warranty transfers with the frame - most frame warranties only apply to the original purchaser.
In the English warranty on the manufacturer's site
http://www.nicolai.net/download/pdf/garantie-englisch-17082006.pdf
it also say that you can use your local dealer *OR* ship directly to Nicolai Germany (at your own expense) - so it sounds like you'd be covered both through the German bike shop or by dealing directly with the manufacturer (which is a little unusual)
You *might* be able to get Nicolai-UK to handle it, but since they're almost certainly not part of Nicolai, and wouldn't have made any money on it, you couldn't expect them to.
As Andy said - try asking Nicolai Germany, including about whether you could use the UK distributor too.
it is an official distributor and nicolai premium shop...so I would expect that warranty issues are no problem,
but the postage would be interesting, and the question if they would ship the frame to the UK .....
..maybe i`m wrong but I thought that nicolai UK has much better prices as nicolai germany...