Ouch! Strange that it was during a shift to the big chain ring.
My frame has very little spacing down at the bottom bracket, and a dropped chain would instantly jam in there. So the LBS installed a
chain catcher when the bike was new. It must be policy with them, they didn't ask me. No scratches on the catcher, so the chain has never dropped, but I like having it there for peace of mind.
Repair
There are
carbon frame repair services. One of the first was the custom frame maker Calfee . They can rebuild the damage and for extra cost, repaint so that the repair is invisible.
Calfee
repair
From a google search, here's another:
carbonframerepair.com
I like their description:
Frame Repairs (Inspection fee of $50 – put towards repair)
- $200-$250 Mere Flesh Wound – partial tube patching for minor carbon frame damage
- $250-$350 Healthy Carnage – Carbon wrap the entire tube for a more serious cracked carbon frame
- $350+ Hella FUBARed- Missing chunks of carbon or partially flattened tubes
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Originally Posted by
HOWSER
Good God, how long did you keep peddling after the drop?
He could pedal all day, but nothing more would happen, since the chain was off the ring. Must have had to pry it out of there, but that's still a lot of damage.
It's often best to try to pull it out radially and work from both ends, instead of yanking on one end of the chain to get it out.
If it's this stuck, I'd
remove the crankset to free the chain. (But probably wouldn't consider it until I'd done a bunch of damage first, and that's not an easy field repair.)
It does seem that the chain may have dropped more than once...