Seven Axiom SLX, 4-season and all-road

[...waits for thread to be moved into private forum :-) ]

Hang on... I thought your Serotta was fubar from the crash? Which then paid for this via insurance?
Are you know saying the Serotta is still alive and well, and you now have the added bonus of a bright pink £10k bike for free?

Serotta has what appears to be a neat slice through the top tube. But without some way to see the tube without paint (actually stripping it, or ultrasound, etc) Cyclefit could only say "Visually the damage looks to have compromised the frame and it is unsafe to ride, and we have to assume if that is the case that the whole bike is unsafe"... hence the shop wrote it off, the insurance accepted this, and the Seven was purchased mostly on insurance as the replacement.

It bugs me though... the "visually" bit.

What if it's just the paint? Serotta paint is really something else, and the damage was never "there's a hole in the frame" just "there's a crack in the paint which implies a slice in the frame".

I want to not have a doubt bugging me.

And now I have a full replacement that I can enjoy, and I have the Serotta back.

What to do with the Serotta? It depends on the damage. If it's just paint... this thing is going back on the road. If it turns out to be the top tube and it does have a slice in it... then is it repairable (probably not because of the custom nature of a mixed carbon and Ti frame)? Or I split everything and sell the parts.

I want to know the real facts, even though I fully embrace the conservative write-off from the don't-take-the-risk school of thought.

Also... that estimate turns out to be on the low side - even factoring in the help given acquiring the Enve parts.

Can I curse #brexit for artificially inflating the price due to exchange rates? The numbers are big enough that this was a major factor in the end cost.