can this be repaired? :s

kitty2056

I have a LOOK carbon road bike that I have broken the seat holder on (by over-tightening!)
is this repairable please? and if so where is the best place to go to?
I'm near Herts/Beds/Cambs

Thanks a lot

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Rodrego Hernandez

Looks pretty terminal to me. Try contacting Look in France or TVT, also in France.

nferrar

Can't see an easy bodge repair for that

skyd0g

Try contacting Carbonology.com - if it can be repaired they're the guys to call.

http://www.carbonology.com/

Monty Dog

Broken aluminium lug - very difficult to repair and trying to weld it may cause problems with the joint of the carbon tubes nearby. Can't see any of the carbon repair people to do anything to save it I'm afraid. To save it from the scrapheap, why not just bond the seatpost in place at the right height with epoxy?

LangerDan

^ this

You could also drill through the lug and seatpost and use a pop-rivet to help hold it in place. I've use ths on an old alloy frame in the past. IIRC, there are some photos of the Paris Roubaix bikes of a few years ago where the mechanics had added the pop-rivets to stop the seat posts dropping over the cobbles

Yossie

Do a quick flick through this here forum for a guy who had a goosed seat post clamp on some purple carbon/ali thing: lots of suggestions on how to sort it on there.

Agree 100% with pop rivet, epoxy, nut and bolt fix. Epoxy will be the neatest.