Ruckus Composites is an agile and innovative carbon fiber repair and concept fabrication organization, and we're continuing our upward growth trend. We set the gold standard for our industry, and we continually change and adapt based on the latest trends in material and composite sciences. We seek to keep once-broken...
Cervelo S2 Headtube Repair
Headtube repairs are some of the most complex repairs we perform; they require immense patience when removing the damage, an accurate layup, and usually an interesting way of extracting the resin from the laminate. This Cervelo arrived for carbon fiber repair and we were able to turn it quickly and...
Felt F2X Heatube Repair
Unfortunately, this is a repair request we see WAY TOO FREQUENTLY: shipping damage. No matter what you do to pack your bike safely, snugly and correctly, there's always a chance an accident can happen. In this repair case, the set of handlebars smashed into the bottom half of the headtube,...
Felt AR-repaint
Change doesn’t come easy, that’s for certain. There’s always a few steps ranging from thought to execution, and most become fixated on the outcome as soon as they *actually* make the decision to change. That change itself can become a nagging fixation, and one of our customers brought in this...
Specialized S-Works Torch Chainstay Repair
The Specialized S-Works Torch is a limited edition model created for the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro this past summer. The idea behind its creation was to replicate the "pinnacle of sport" and to symbolically represent the idea of a growing flame using thermochromic paint. Thermochromic paint, quite literally...
Felt AR Chainstay Repair
This carbon fiber Felt AR frame arrived at Ruckus after an incredibly unfortunate event, that being a double chainstay fracture. It sounded like a pretty terrifying accident but luckily our customer was able to walk away unscathed, well save for the bike, that is. The owner of the frame installed...
New Shop, Better Us
Normally, moving is a complete drag both physically and emotionally. The days and weeks before are a slow grind of abstract organization, planning and sitting on the phone with various permitting offices, mostly being on hold the entire time. One can only take so much smooth elevator jazz. You plan...
Cervelo P3 Dropout Replacement
Ah, the derailleur hanger. A constant point of frustration for the modern carbon fiber bicycle frame. This part that secures the shifting mechanism to the frame seems like it should be of the burliest parts of the frame, but we all know that isn't quite so. Wether or not the...
Look 585 Revival
Black matte paint. It's always in fashion. It's totally simple. It's undoubtedly the best choice for a sleek, understated cool frame. This Look 585 carbon frame arrived at Ruckus for a very small repair, a bottle cage-mount replacement, but the customer wanted to take the opportunity to make something big...
Specialized Stumpjumper Bottom Bracket Repair
Press fit bottom brackets have many benefits and a few downfalls, one of them being the ability to bore out or crack over time. Luckily, we're able to perform a simple PF30 installation on many carbon frames. We take tubing supplied by ENVE, cut it delicately to the width needed...