Carbon Fiber Bicycle Frame Repair

Founder brady kappius.

Carbon fiber bicycle frame repair.

Leader for carbon fiber bicycle frame repair and inspection betterservicethroughscience. Our back in black option uses the frames base graphic aesthetic and geometry to form a black shape that covers the repair and our full restoration option matches the paint and graphics exactly how it rolled off the factory floor. Customers using bikeflights or providing their own shipping labels will be charged a 20 packing handling fee for return shipping. There are a number of carbon repair services popping up in the back of bike shops but small says ruckus is one of the few outfits that focuses only on carbon fiber repair and that specialization.

The fee will be waived upon approval of repair work. All our repairs come with a state of the art repair high quality aerospace grade carbon fiber and frame optimized material matching. This guide is intended to be a helpful resource for someone considering repairing their carbon frame at home. Repairs are stronger than the pre damaged frame add no measurable weight and don t alter the ride of the bike.

Backed by multiple undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering plus a 30 years of racing experience nobody understands composites and the requirements of high end bicycles like we do. Nearly every carbon fiber frame can be repaired no matter how severe the damage. Pretty much anything can be repaired he says noting that the process of layering carbon compressing the frame and curing the new material is similar to the way new carbon bikes are made. Read the gear junkie article.

Professional repair companies won t even touch those. Do not try to repair carbon fiber handlebars seatposts forks saddles etc. Appleman bicycles can repair your damaged broken busted or cracked carbon fiber frame. After repair we have two paint finishing options.

The plan is to sand off the clearcoat around the damage fill the hole and then wrap a few more layers of carbon fiber and epoxy around the tube in order to hopefully return it to serviceable strength. Carbon bike repair is not a myth. I use my vast knowledge. Ruckus composites is the u s.

Carbon repair form a 100 inspection fee will be charged for every frame entering our facility. Broken carbon is the premier carbon fiber bicycle repair shop. In fact carbon fiber is one of the most repairable materials and each appleman repair is covered by a 10 year warranty. It s a myth that carbon can t be repaired.