A local rider and friend of Ruckus broke his SRAM XX rear derailleur awhile back. The part that broke was a slightly wussy nylon cable guide, all his attempts were sadly futile to find a replacement part. To continue honing our abilities to mill and lathe aluminum I decided to...
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Water Bottle Bosses
Sometimes carbon repair can mean re-installing water bottle bosses back into a frame.
Carbon Fiber Tables
One of our largest projects was fabricating two 4 foot by 8 foot carbon fiber tables for Adidas in Portland, OR. We finished off everything with metallic flake graphics and a high gloss clearcoat.
Hot Dogs in Space
At Ruckus we get a lot of fun requests in a week, one of our all time favorite projects was launching a hot dog higher than anyone has before. The Portland Mercury published a wonderful story about which you can check out here. http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/hot-dog-in-spaaaaaaace/Content?oid=8095207 <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/LImZfUCofB0?rel=0" height="480" width="853" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Carbon Fiber Paper Clip
When you need to really impress a client let us help you. We can fabricate all sorts of unique solutions that will wow someone. This is a large custom formed presentation clip.
Carbon Fiber Recycling
The other week Specialized announced a program to recycle carbon fiber in conjunction with Materials Innovation Technologies. Earlier this year Trek also announced a similar program. Instead of standard recycling program it is part of a process called downcycling; where you convert a waste material into a new material of lesser...
How strong is carbon repair?
A question we field all of the time is “How strong will the repair be?” Before the last couple weeks all we had was our in-house test standards that they would be strong and the fact that we have never had another frame that we repaired come back into our...
Home Inspection Techniques
Carbon frames have become the go to material of the industry and have built up quite the mystique. As we repair more and more frames and collect more and more data we aim to inform more people about carbon fiber in the bike industry. One of the most popular questions...
Born this way
Graham and I have been busy bees preparing for the Pedal Nation show in Portland this weekend. We are in booth 302 on the backside of the folks from Portland Design Works. We decided to embrace our colorful side and we let our colors burst for the show with our fenders and...