Went for my first sunrise training ride on the weekend. Looked forward to cooler conditions, no traffic, and no wind. Had my mandatory 7 hours of sleep, then got up, had some fruit and crap for breakfast and set out. I wanted cooler, but fark, I can't remember being colder in my life. And even though I got enough sleep, still felt tired as. So combine that with the cold I was just numb all over and felt totally off. To make metters worse, as soon as the sun popped up, so did the wind. What's with all the talk of still early mornings. Load of cr@p I say.

Anyway, the point of my whinge. Probably 30 minutes into my slog from hell while my body is feeling like I borrowed it from some herroin smacktard, my bike did something that was a first for it. Changing from the big ring to the small, it chainsucked. Well it felt like a chainsuck as the pedals locked tight. So backpedalled, stopped and looked down only to see no damage or scuffs near the rings. So tipped the bike over to find a hellacious hack out of the underside of the chainstay about a deraileurs swing away from the rear.

Anyway, I can't really tell if its just a bad hack in the surface of the finish/resin or if it's cut through some carbon. I'll take it around to the bike shop to give them a look at it when I get some time, but finding that time is impossible with work and christmas and tomorrows bludy colonoscopy (this week sucks).

So what you dudes rekon? All the doom and gloom merchants right about a CF scratch making bikes death machines? How close to zero would my chances be of getting a new frame if the hack is too bad?