Now here's an accident that we see all the time. This carbon fiber Trek Madone came in for repair after the toptube was damaged by the handlebars. Our customer rested the bike down during a pit stop to go inside a supermarket and purchase a beverage and he returned to...
Trek Slash 9.8 Bottom Bracket Repair
Let's face it. Carbon fiber mountain bike frames are susceptible to damage pretty much any way you ride it. Rock gardens, trees, roots, drops, hits and whips all add the allure and intensity of riding on trails, but one wrong move over any of these features can spell disaster for...
BMC GF01 Toptube Repair
Plenty of dangers exist out on the road to wreak havoc on your ride: cars, aloof passerby, semis, dive-bombing birds even can make your time on the bike go awry. However, sometimes immovable objects cause the most harm. In this repair case our customer hit a yellow bollard, a dreaded...
Specialized Sworks Tarmac Toptube Repair
The beauty of the modern carbon fiber bicycle partially relates to the cleanliness of the frame. Additions and innovations such as flat mount discs, through axles and internal cable routing contribute to the clean aesthetic. Although incredibly good looking, many advancements still have some kind of downfall. In this case...
Trek Madone Dropout and Seatstay Repair
One thing we've learned here at Ruckus is that every bike has a different story, and many people choose repair over purchase of a new bike for sentimental reasons. This Trek Madone carbon fiber bicycle frame showed up with a pretty heavy story behind it. This particular bike was a...
Trek Emonda SLR Seatstay Repair
There's only one thing worse than crashing, and that's crashing your brand new bike. This Trek Emonda SLR carbon fiber frame is the world's lightest production road bike and was in the hands of our customer for only a matter of weeks before the accident. We don't have the details...
Serotta Fierte TI Cable Stop Replacement
Often times people contact us with repairs of parts that are not necessarily broken, like this Serotta Fierte Ti. We received this titanium and carbon fiber frame with grey, bubbling clear coat and corroded cable stops. Although nothing was technically broken it was aesthetically very unpleasing, so we popped off...
Lael Wilcox’s Baja Divide Lauf Boost Fork Mod
"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are..." - Ernest Hemingway Lael Wilcox states via her website : “I think about things when...
BMC SL01 Chainstay Repair
Destroying something unique and valuable usually carries a certain amount of heartbreak, after all, loss is always difficult. Fortunately, it doesn't have to be that way with carbon fiber bicycle frames. This BMC has one of the more unique paintjobs that we've seen, and our customer loves it. It needed...
Corvallis Cross Classic ’16
Several years ago we were having a conversation with some of our friends regarding the status quo of the racing scene in Oregon. Our main concern was, "how come women don't have a specific single speed category anymore". It used to exist but as of three years ago it had...