Firstly there are a few things we need to clear up: Carbon is not abrasive friendly. Bags and cardboard are not abrasive friendly. Simply covering tubes with lagging foam does virtually NOTHING to stop external blunt force from distorting and cracking the frame. The general rule to safely transport a bike in a soft bag/ cardboard […]
Soft or hard boxes? The debate rolls on. I always thought hard boxes were the safest until a cyclist friend, who actually worked as a bag packer at Gatwick, suggested that soft bags/ cardboard were generally treated more carefully while the hard cases often were found at the very bottom of a pile of holiday […]
How have the manufacturers responded to the elements that can affect paint on a typical carbon mountain bike? You have 2 options it seems: 1 – Powder coat the frame if it is alloy. The limitations are in the colour choice and the designs limitations but it is as hard as nails. 2 – The […]
Yes. This mountain bike came in for an inspection requested by a concerned customer after it was repaired by another carbon repairer. The large ‘block’ of carbon (pic left) now present on the BB/ downtube is much thicker then the original tube wall. As a result if this area were knocked during riding it will […]
This customer had a custom respray last year. Over time it developed paint flaws which were consistant with an error in the paint process. We inspected under microscope and discovered shrinking and adhesion issue which was not down to user error: ‘Hi Ben Frame received back thanks for standing over your work. Thanks Alan’
We make sure, as with all our bike shops, Sigma Sport are always satisfied with our service: ‘Hi guys, The frame arrived today and, as usual, the finish is excellent. Just wanted to say a massive thank you for getting this turned around so quickly. It is very much appreciated.’
Some people ask about the level of detail we put back into our restoration and custom resprays here at CBR. In this case we are spraying an F8 Pinarello in a special candy blue effect. The top tube detail is replaced using an in-house template which allows us to spray in fine detail such as […]
This is a fairly complex and unique restoration of a top tube where the design consists of random letters. Here is the finished restore 100% as per the original.
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Some of you may know the brand and model based on the component. I want to show how complex colour can get when it is a moving target. There is a perception that the original, on the left, is the benchmark when in fact what it shows is an uneven colour spread which we have […]