Normally, moving is a complete drag both physically and emotionally. The days and weeks before are a slow grind of abstract organization, planning and sitting on the phone with various permitting offices, mostly being on hold the entire time. One can only take so much smooth elevator jazz. You plan and wait, but can't execute anything until you ...

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...

ISPs, or integrated seat posts, are one of the more polarizing elements of modern bicycle design. Some adore them, others loathe and despise their very existence. They present a sleek, custom aesthetic to frames while providing a distinct ride-feel, but they also have some challenges associated with their design. Taller riders with larger frames...

From ancient cave paintings to a 2012 Taylor Swift album release, few colors evoke such feelings as red, one of the oldest and most complex colors of the visible light spectrum. Without starting a symbolic dissertation, red suggests basically the entire gamut of human emotion relative to its culture of display. It can symbolize life, passion and...

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...

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.

Toptubes are easily the most damage prone tube on a carbon fiber bike frame, and undoubtedly the repair request we receive the most. This Scott Addict came to us after our customer had dropped the bike and made a small ding which propogated up the toptube towards the headset, following a seam in the carbon fiber. As always, the first step of our...