Who would win? A seatstay made out of material developed at this point for realistically over 130 years into the perfect synthesis of weight and rigidity, or one derailleur? We all know the answer to this. The derailleur always wins. Not in the long run, though. Soon enough it will clap out, become feeble, shifting sloppily, jockey wheels gunked...

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 piece of road furniture angled ever so slightly as to collide ...

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 a new chainstay and clear coat touchups bu ...

Chainsuck sucks. It's plain and simple. Dumping your chain down off of your front rings and into the frame is not only annoying, but scary as well. This BMC GF02 carbon fiber frame came to us for repair after our customer dumped their chain while climbing. Thankfully they didn't fall off the bike but the damage was certainly significant.