Mitch’s road bike 2

Earlier this year, I built Mitch a bike. Unfortunately, inside a week of riding it, he had a terrible altercation with a Camero. I’m very glad to say that he survived, but not without serious injury. After my incident last year, I can very much emphasis with what he has to go through with healing and physical therapy to get back to health. My very best wishes go out to him.

Mitch’s bike came back to me, and it was very interesting to observe the damage. The frame was very badly damaged, being bent and twisted in several places – but it remained in one piece and the paint was hardly touched! The Enve fork and bar were pretty much destroyed, but remarkably, the Campy Record group didn’t even have a scratch anywhere! The Enve wheels just needed a small amount of truing. So we had most of the parts ready for a new frame.

Understandably, Mitch wanted to make a couple of changes to the frame and paint so that it wouldn’t be like getting back on the same bike that he went through the crash with. We went with a different stem, which dropped the headtube a little, and switched to a bi-ovalised downtube. The new paint was applied by Colorworks, with Team EC blue accented with white and Chris King blue.

It might be a while before Mitch can get back on the road, but hopefully having the new bike waiting for him will help keep him motivated for a fast recovery!

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