today i called the insurance of the girl that hit me on tuesday and informed them that she did not hit a car, but destroyed a bike (they wrote: “please inform us, how expensive the repair of the motor vehicle is gonna be”). the guy on the phone was really friendly, but also a bit weird: “oh, i cannot believe that your bike (something like this ) costed 2000 swiss francs five years ago, it must be something really expensive then”. well, sure it was, it’s one of my work -horses, you silly! and when i informed him, that i’m also gonna buy a new helmet on the insurance, he also a bit surprised. but hey, i don’t wanna drive with a potentially damaged helmet, it’s just not safe (not that it’s safe in the first place :-)
and now comes the hard part. if the insurance is gonna pay me around 2k-bucks for a new bike i have to choose wisely, the choice is really big.
thomu has three really nice options. price bikes has some of the slickest looking frames . roschu has much more available and served me really well whenever i bought something there. our shop has some very good deals on bmc bikes from last year. or should i go for pinarello again? decisions, decisions!
and why is the title of this entry new bikes? today i went to the shop to get my other workbike (the one where i would be un-solaceable if it was damaged like the pinarello). the guys in the shop had to change pretty much everything except the frame :-) i had to get two new rims, because the ones on the bike were paperthin, thus the also mounted new spokes and new brake pads. the main cause i brought the bike was that it needed a new set of chain rings because the ones on it served me well for about 8000 km, thus they also had to mount a new chain and new pinions (the cogwheels in the back). and because one of the shift-levers was broken, i told them to change that too. good that we have a decent rebate in the shop or else i would have paid much more than 577 bucks to get a literally new bike (all the major parts are brand-spanking new - exept the hubs, which were changed some months ago :-)