Accidents happen. Sometimes more than once. This carbon fiber Giant Defy arrived at Ruckus after having been crashed not once, but twice. As is common in crashing, they damaged their seatstay and it needed a full repair. Whether or not its a full repair, send us your carbon fiber frames...
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Specialized Tarmac Downtube Repair
For those about to rock...we repair you! Carbon fiber bicycle frames, though very strong, can be highly susceptible to localized impact damage. This frame arrived from our friends at with a crack in the downtube from a rock that flew up and made impact with the frame during a road...
Specialized Roubaix Downtube Repair
Crashing a bike is always a scary endeavor, but when it involves a car it becomes a whole other terrifying ordeal. This Specialized Roubaix came to Ruckus with an absolutely mangled downtube...the result of being doored by a car. Luckily our customer walked away with only minor scrapes, but the...
S-Works Amira Toptube Repair
Paint matching is a delicate and time consuming art. Luckily, we have more than one paint wizard in-house. This Specialized S-Works Amira carbon fiber frame arrived with a quarter-sized crack in the toptube. The repair is a basic one for us, but matching that purple-to-blue sparkle fade sure was tricky...and...
LaPierre Xeilus Seatstay Repair
Seatstays are the tubes that connect the dropout to the seattube on bicycle frames. These tubes are becoming lighter and thinner on carbon fiber frames as both a means of weight and vibration reduction. Subsequently, this also makes them more susceptible to damage. One of our customers accidentally knocked over...
ReMade in the USA v. 1.0
What to do when your frame needs a new small part to keep rolling? Bicycle frames require countless specific small parts with even smaller tolerances and sometimes they break or go missing. We encounter these obstacles frequently and are well equipped to make any part necessary to completely repair...
Scott Addict Chainstay Repair
Unfortunately, chainsuck occurs way too frequently. This is when a bad shift happens and throws the chain off of the drivetrain, resulting in a somewhere-stuck-chain. This carbon fiber Scott Addict frame arrived at Ruckus with the chain still stuck between the cassette and dropout. So, after some clever removal procedures...
Colnago C50 Seatstay Repair & Dropout Replacement
Sometimes things go horribly awry on rides. This carbon fiber Colnago C50 came to us with a broken seatstay and a ripped off dropout, so naturally we inquired what happened: "I had to make a repair to the chain while out on a ride. This left the chain short a...
Stevens Super Prestige Seatstay Repair
Carbon fiber cyclocross frames are completely and totally always subject to damage from the brutal nature of the course conditions. One of our customers crashed his favorite bike and came to us for repair help. Of course, we were happy to oblige and sent him back his "totally new looking...
Specialized Stumpjumper Seatstay Repair
Carbon fiber hardtail mountain bike frames inherently take a beating due the the nature of where and how people ride them. Subsequently, we see many cases of seatstay or chainstay damage for these type of frames. This one was a completely routine repair for us, and we were happy to...