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Accidents happen, and sometimes we don;t even know that they have. That's the case for this Felt carbon fiber repair; our customer knocked over their bike and continued to ride it for a year. After a while, the carbon simply failed due to high-stress loads on an already compromised tube. Seattube repairs are some of the most common repairs we pe...

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Toptube repairs are some of the most common 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 Felt B16 arrived for carbon fiber repair and we were able to turn it quickly, cleanly and safely for our customer.

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Headtubes on cross bikes get banged up pretty badly...and that's just the nature of the CX beast. Fortunately, we're able to save almost any carbon fiber structure, so this headtube was a common repair for us! This one required immense patience when removing the damage, an accurate layup, and usually an interesting way of extracting the resin fr...

Felt_Headtube_3-17-1-2

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, causing a slightly-larger-than-quarter sized crack. Luck...

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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 carbon fiber Felt AR1 for that very...

Felt_AR_CS_317-8

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 two oversized, aftermarket pulleys into the derai...

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