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Old 10-03-11 | 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by vjp
I wouldn't replace the top tube as that bb size dent won't make this tube fail. Frame blocks won't do much for this particular dent. Filler and a fade in paint job by someone like Cyclart would be the ticket in my opinion.
+1 but I expect matching the paint will be pretty difficult.

As for what it does to the value, good question, but not one for anyone but a potential buyer to answer. It's a bird-in-hand versus bird-in-bush conundrum; when you compare the value of a real bike to that of a hypothetical bike, you get a hypothetical result.
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