Riding with friends is always great but sometimes a touch of the wheels in the paceline is all it takes to go down. Accidents happen whether by lapse of concentration or bad timing, that’s a fact. The nice part about riding partners is they’ll help you get up after you’ve fallen. This Cannondale Supersix EVO came in for carbon repairs after a fall cracked both seatstays in different places. Luckily for our customer, seatstay repairs are some of the most common 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. Being the thinnest tubes and most exposed on the bike, seatstays are very damage prone…pretty much always.
At Ruckus Composites, we pride ourselves on quickly and safely repairing carbon fiber bike frames. It is our continuing mission to use carbon fiber repair to challenge the status quo of both the bike industry and throwaway culture by keeping good bikes and their memories rolling.
Our proven carbon fiber bike repair process goes like this: first, we inspect the damaged area, using ultrasound technology, and removing all the guesswork from the repair. The detailed info we gather helps us provide an incredibly accurate repair with fewer materials needed, which makes a quicker turn time for you! Next, we remove all the damaged materials from the seatstay, which guarantees no further cracking. We then replicate the factory lay-up using our high-end prepreg carbon fiber and cast the area with heat and pressure to remove the epoxy. Finally, we send the bike to our master painter who expertly matches both the paint and decals of the original frame.
Carbon fiber bike repairs are delicate and time-consuming art, in which we perform every step by hand. Have a Cannondale with a broken or cracked part? Submit a repair form today to get started with your repair. Submit a repair form here!