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Fingers Crossed

By Jason • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Jason's Training Log

I stopped by R&M today to check on the progress of my bike.  Rich gave me some good news, I think.  He said the bike was stripped and frame shipped off to Trek headquarters.  Trek thinks they might be able to fix my frame (is that a good thing?).  There is some kind of melting/gluing process for carbon fiber (who knew?).  I’m not really sure and actually don’t really want to know but fixing the frame will be a hell of a lot cheaper than purchasing a new frame.  With price being the main issue, integrity is not.  I’ll keep my fingers crossed and take what I can get.

4 Comments »

  1. DanNo Gravatar on July 8th, 2008 at 9:11 pm:

    I am sure MacGyver could take care of it with a role of duck tape and a few bobbie pins.

  2. JoshNo Gravatar on July 9th, 2008 at 11:37 am:

    I had a steel frame one time that cracked at the head tube–a buddy welded it back–It looked awful but rode the same–Im sure Trek could do something!

  3. JasonNo Gravatar on July 10th, 2008 at 11:47 am:

    It’s the carbon fiber I am worried about, not asthetics. I don”t want to go down again because of some sketchy gluing process. I had a Trek2300 once that got cracked around the bottom bracket. They replaced the whole frame for free. It wasn’t from a crash, though, just faluty carbon fiber.

  4. JoshNo Gravatar on July 10th, 2008 at 1:09 pm:

    I hear ya there–I guess as long as you keep Ben off your wheel you should be safe!

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