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    Scratch on carbon frame?

    Eek. I just took my bike off the trainer for the season and put a road tire on the rear wheel... as I went to go clean up my hands, I leaned the bike up against my glass dining room table. When I came back out to wheel the bike to the hall, as I was moving it from the table, a corner of the table scratched the top tube. The glass table has very sharp corners...

    I'm freaking a little. The size of the scratch is small -- maybe half a centimeter long. Depth wise? It's not a major gouge, but it's not extremely superficial either - it may be deeper than just the clearcoat, although I don't think I went down to carbon. Aside from my horror at the cosmetic damage to my beautiful bike , I'm wondering if this is *significant* and if I should do anything about it, or if I should bring it into the shop and have them take a look at it.

    It was hard to capture the scratch using a digital camera (at least given my poor photographic skills -- the finish of the bike is very shiny and the weave reflects light strangely, and it's difficult to get close enough and still keep the shot in focus)... But here's a rough idea of what it looks like:

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    Comments? Reactions? Am I completely over reacting?
    Last edited by VeloVT; 04-25-2009 at 03:50 PM.

 

 

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