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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. Now, we're not exactly sure w...

Chainstay 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. This Cervelo arrived for carbon fiber repair and we were able to turn it quickly and cleanly. At Ruckus Composites, we pride ourselves on quickly and safely repairing ca...

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. At first glance our customer thought it ...

Destroying something unique and valuable usually carries a certain amount of heartbreak, after all, loss is always difficult. Fortunately, it doesn't have to be that way with carbon fiber bicycle frames. This BMC has one of the more unique paintjobs that we've seen, and our customer loves it. It needed a new chainstay and clear coat touchups bu the bottle bosses. As usual, we said no ...

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 we finally got to the...

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 up a few hours later...

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