Or if it was re-aligned, also no harm done. :^) It sounds, though, like the original poster is looking for this: "Dude. Keep your bike and do whatever you want to it!"
I had the same fear of diminishing the resale value of my Bontrager by changing anything... 14 years on, it's worth 25% of its original cost *anyway*, even in NOS condition. Philip www.biketinker.com On Monday, December 30, 2013 5:20:31 AM UTC-8, Eric Daume wrote: > > If the frame didn't go out of alignment, no harm done. > > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Michael <john1...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> October 2012, I got hit in the side by a slow moving car that entered >> into the traffic circle I was travelling through. >> More like the car pushed me over than hit me. >> >> I took the bike to two LBS's to have it checked out before the insurance >> settlement. >> Both shops said that the frame was perfect. Alignment A-OK. >> >> Only damage on the bike was the rear rim, which was replaced. I didn;t >> even find any scratches from the accident, except the ones on me. >> >> Does the fact that it was in a accident devalue the bike, even though the >> frame is perfecto and the components, too? >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
