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Ok as a lot of you know my bike met its rather untimely end a few days ago and SJS Cycles agreed to replace the bike. Well today I received a phone call from them, basically what they were planning to do was to use a fairly inexpensive track frame they used to sell for the frame, and replace all the bits that couldn't be salvaged from the old bike. But they have been unable to find any of these frames, this means they are having to use a custom made track frame that they have recently made. I have been told that their custom frames normally retail at £1000 and because of this they are asking that I pay £150 towards the cost of the bike (effectively covering the cost of the materials I guess?)
The problem that I am faced with is without paying this £150 I have no bike, but it does effectively double the price of what I wanted to spend on my bike.
What I was hoping to find out was is this how much do custom frame's normally retail for?
and finally as a bit of a novice, how can I tell that it really is the great frame that it should be?
Thank