There was a cyclocross race a couple of weeks ago that took place on a farm near Corvallis, Oregon. It was muddy. And windy. There were bizarre course features and ill-advised egg nog hand-ups. Seasoned racers high fived first-timers, rinsed off mud-caked bikes, shared post race coffee and bourbons. It...
That New Bike Feel
The last time I got a new bike, once it was finally built up, dialed, bars wrapped just so, it was well past midnight, into the wee hours of a sticky morning in August. I fell asleep on the living room couch, bike resting a few feet away, and woke...
Clean. Sleek. Unique.
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The rain's arrived in Portland but we continue to be as busy as ever down at Ruckus HQ. This week we saw several dropout replacements, a number of cx bike repairs and some great paint jobs come through the shop. A project that we were excited to get completed was...
Supporting Women. One Muddy Race at a Time.
So this morning the White House posted a letter from a 13 year old girl, Ayla, on Instagram. In the letter, Ayla expressed to the president how frustrated she feels about gender inequality in sports. We’re frustrated, too. It’s an important reminder to us that we still have a long...
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...
CUT HERE
This week we worked on a number of cool repairs. One of the most interesting projects we completed was a full head tube replacement on a Look KG 386. The bike arrived here with a broken 1” head tube in need of repair. This older 1” standard means that it’s...
30 is the new 30
This week at Ruckus we’ve been keeping busy--we’ve seen over 30 bike repairs come through the door! One of the more interesting projects we got our hands on this week was a bottom bracket shell replacement on a 2012 Cannondale Super X.
Kintsugi: Repair as Art
Every frame repair that we see here at Ruckus tells a story. "I was leading the Master’s A field when I hit that keg...” “A mountain lion was chasing me down this rocky ravine...” “I forgot about the roof rack...” We see it all, and we think it’s great when...
Save Tens of Dollars With This One Trick The Shipping Company’s Don’t Want You To Know
Use a smaller box. That’s it, the whole shebang. Last week we saved a customer $65.00 by cutting four inches off one end of his box. Here’s some data from earlier today, when we were deciding if we should cut down the long dimension on a 52” x 8” x...
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.