carbon frame repair
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Not personal experience but recommended by guys on time trial forum a lot hth
Not personal experience but recommended by guys on time trial forum a lot hth
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Try Rob Hayles at Re-carb and check out some of the pictures on twitter of repaired carbon fibre bikes.
Try Rob Hayles at Re-carb and check out some of the pictures on twitter of repaired carbon fibre bikes.
https://carbonbikerepair.co.uk/
Repaired my De Rosa to a fantastic standard. Massively impressed, except with the cost (which was fair) and the lack of photos of the process. I wanted them to stay with the bike if I ever sold it.
I would recommend them and I was amazed with what they can do, including paintwork.
Repaired my De Rosa to a fantastic standard. Massively impressed, except with the cost (which was fair) and the lack of photos of the process. I wanted them to stay with the bike if I ever sold it.
I would recommend them and I was amazed with what they can do, including paintwork.
khushy said:
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This. I had my Bianchi done there earlier in the year. I’d dropped the bike and it hit my stand quite hard and fractured the carbon. I took the opportunity to have the bike painted in a gloss paint finish rather than the original Matt finish. Took a while but the end result is first class.
Top tube. Middle by Paul Monaghan, on Flickr
[My personal experience with carbon repair has not been a good one...
It was a repair to the top of the seat tube. Looked great but the frame has since eaten 2 seatposts and getting the company that did the work to take responsibility and sort it out has proved... challenging.
It's one of the companies mentioned above.
I think if it's repairs to a simple bit of top or down tube, you can probably get a decent repair done. It it's anything more complex where there is high accuracy or serious load bearing involved, get it repaired at your peril!
It was a repair to the top of the seat tube. Looked great but the frame has since eaten 2 seatposts and getting the company that did the work to take responsibility and sort it out has proved... challenging.
It's one of the companies mentioned above.
I think if it's repairs to a simple bit of top or down tube, you can probably get a decent repair done. It it's anything more complex where there is high accuracy or serious load bearing involved, get it repaired at your peril!
Paul Drawmer said:
My concern with a carbon frame repair is that producing a great external finish is no indication of the final structural integrity of the repair.
How can that be verified?
How do you know it was manufactured properly in the first place? How do you know the person doing the carbon layup didn't use his sandwich wrapper rather than some crucial strip of carbon fibre?How can that be verified?
Paul Drawmer said:
My concern with a carbon frame repair is that producing a great external finish is no indication of the final structural integrity of the repair.
How can that be verified?
Err. You would inspect it before it was painted. You would also take into account previous review and feedback along with your gut feeling after speaking to the person and viewing the workshop. Pretty much the same as you would do if you took an expensive car for repairs and paint. How can that be verified?
http://spirecycles.co.uk is another one - based in Dorset. I'm looking at getting them to do a repair, so can't vouch for their quality (yet).
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