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  1. ul-bike-flyfisher on

    I’m perhaps more risk adverse but when I managed to rub through the paint + a few layers of carbon on a bike, I wrote it off (Was the fork crown from a bag rubbing during a wet bikepacking trip).

    Given you can see a few layers of carbon exposed here I’d be inclined to get it repaired because without that you’ll maybe get a few dollars as it’s likely not ridable currently.

  2. christiandoran on

    Looks like it’s almost right through the frame. Can’t imagine anyone would want to buy that. If it was me I’d buy a new frame and build that up from the parts of this one and chuck the frame in the bin

  3. Let me guess you are running tyres wider than 25mm?

    That frame is from a time when 25mm was considered oversize for road tyres, it being carbon means when it was made it was a fairly high end frame so clearance could have been even tighter with 22mm & sometimes even 19mm being the maximum stated tyre clearance.

    You have an older frame made to older standards trying to run wider tyres than it was made for ( displayed on the manufacturer’s website ) causes the damage you see in your photos.

    Nobody can give you a definite answer if it is still safe to use based on those photos, the only way to know is to have the frame scanned to see if there is enough carbon thickness left. Because it is so strong carbon frames can be deceptively thin, compared to aluminium carbon frames can be wafer thin often being so thin in parts they are regularly crushed by people using workstands.

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