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 cleanly. At Ruckus Composites, we pride ourse...

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...

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...

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 from the "greek" for heat and "c...

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...

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 replaceable derailleur hanger is "designed to fail", as some claim, cos...

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 out of it. As you can see from the image...

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 for any given BB area, and adhere it cleanly into the frame. No mor...

Dropout 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. Furthermore, we have to CNC machine a new, fully carbon dropout as well. We then This Argon 18 arrived for a carbon fiber dropout re...

The off-season is the perfect time to repair a busted carbon fiber bike frame. For may of us, cyclocross is an out-of-sight out-of-mind kind of discipline; arriving and leaving in a fervor mostly destroying all gear in its path. That's exactly the case for this Trek Boone frame: our customer sent it to us after months of neglect, hanging lowly a...