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 that our customer (somehow!) managed...

Let's face it, accidents happen when we least expect them. For this repair case, our customer was pedaling slowly and testing out his shifting before departing on a ride. He was looking down at the gears moving and didn't notice the curb approaching, slowly falling over onto it. Thankfully, he was in a parking lot and crashed with little persona...

While many currently say that #crossisgone, the ghosts of races past sometimes never leave. Some even leave seemingly indelible traces on our minds, bodies or frames. This carbon fiber Specialized Crux cyclocross frame is a remnant of seasons past. A local customer arrived one day (a few weeks after our Oregon season ended) with a frame broken f...

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 or all of the actual dropout with it. That's exactly what ...

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 find the bike resting sadly on the ground, blown down by a gust of wi...

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 a frame. The bottom bracket of any bike is open to damage due to t...

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 ...

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 the internal c...

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 gift to our customer from a loved one who recently passed away. I...

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 of how it happened, but we do know that the seatstay was damaged. ...