We're supposed to feel safe in the garage, but often that is not always the case. This Trek Madone arrived at Ruckus after the customer suffered a "dropping incident" at home. He was in the garage tinkering on some projects when he unfortunately dropped a tool right onto the chainstay....
Trek Procaliber Seatstay Repair
Scorpion Style, not to be confused with a Kung-Fu variation, is an absolutely horrific way to crash while mountain biking. For those of you unfamiliar, this means crashing over you handlebars while still clipped into your pedals with your legs then arching over behind your back. Ouch. We're seriously thankful...
Trek Speed Concept Dropout Replacement
Ruckus Composites is the only company in the world that has the ability and knowledge on how to replace your broken dropouts, and we've done it hundreds of times. It's can be a pretty scary accident, and what usually what happens is the replaceable derailleur hanger snaps and takes parts...
Trek Madone Toptube Repair
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...
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...
Trek Madone Headtube & Seatstay Repair
This carbon fiber Trek Madone was damaged due to rear derailleur failure, resulting in a crash. The resulting tumble also caused damage to the headtube. This bike is the favorite ride of one of our customers and she sent it to us to be remade again.
Any Bike. Any Dropout.
This week at Ruckus we started reorganizing the shop, we listened to some great jams (courtesy of Dan), we lost one of our beloved houseplants and completed a whole lot of repairs. One of the more interesting and illustrative repairs we finished up was a dropout replacement on a Trek...
Paint Chips and Touch-ups
We get a lot of questions about why painting can get expensive, or why it can take awhile to do. We wanted highlight the steps required to fix a small chip on a frame.