Looking for best option to repair a damaged seat stay on my Cervelo R3. Reached out to several carbon frame repair companies. All indicate that as far as they can tell - won't know for sure until frame is in-hand - that repair and matching to "good as new" is possible.
Does anyone have any yea's or nea's to offer about Calfee Design or Spyder Composites for carbon repair work?
Thanks!
Mid-stay damage:
Bottom of stay, hard to see in photo but it's right above the curve of the dropout...
I don't think you can go wrong with Calfee (not familiar with Spyder) but to throw another name out there look at RR Velo. Edgar at RR Velo did an excellent job at repairing my carbon frame. In the end your the one riding it, go with your gut feeling on who you think will do the best job (as there are many shops that repair it).
I had exactly the same thing repaired on the same place on an R3 as well. Calfee did it, and turn around was like 3 weeks. Really happy with it, and it rode great. No experience with Spyder.
I had exactly the same thing repaired on the same place on an R3 as well. Calfee did it, and turn around was like 3 weeks. Really happy with it, and it rode great.
I've been looking up frame repair as well. I'm going to go with Spyder Composites. Their repairs look really good on their Facebook page. They also quoted a really good price for repairing my seat stay. I sent Calfee an email with pics asking about repairing my frame and never got an email back.
I had a frame with two cracks in a seat stay repaired by Spyder Composites just a couple weeks ago. Turn-around time was under two weeks but we live close enough to drop off and pick up the frame in person. Others have reported longer repair times. It did take a few calls to keep things on track; Frank seems very busy. The repair work was first-rate, practically imperceptible, strong, and the paint work, two colors and a decal, look perfect. The price was also very reasonable.
As long as this thread has been dredged up, I thought I would mention that I had the work done by Spyder Composites.
Very happy with the work - bike came back "indistinguishable from new" to the point that my LBS checked the serial number to see if they had actually sent the same frame back. I even had to think for a bit which side was broken, because the repair was not apparent at all.
Very happy with the cost - $160 for the repair, including paint matching. By contrast, Calfee's estimate for the repair was nearly 2x the cost PLUS $100 for paint.
Beware of Spyder Composites. They will tell you it takes 2 weeks to fix your bike. A week after they received my bike they emailed me an invoice and said the bike had been repaired. Once paid, they stopped replying to emails and voicemail. It has been 2 months since I paid and I still don't have my bike. When I called , they were nasty, confrontational and evasive. I was called a "********" and said the reason for the delay was because "Cannondale makes shitty bikes." Bottom line: Spyder is clueless when it comes to customer service and they have no sense of urgency.
I wish I saw this post before I sent them my frame...Promised 2 weeks, 6 weeks and counting now. They said its was finished 4 weeks ago. Every time I contact them for the tracking number, just excuses, good thing is profanity not involved yet.
I used Spyder Composites and they did a great job. You could not tell the difference when completed. Yes it did take time so it may not be a place for a type A personality. Spyder does excellent work but it will take time
Everyone should use caution when dealing with Spyder. My shop used to contract with them for customer carbon repair. They grew sketchier and sketchier during the last part of 2014 and became virtually useless in 2015. We were straight lied to several times, and communication was abysmal.
I will personally inspect the work they are doing on your frame if it's there on Sept 20th 2015.
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