Originally Posted by badsac

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?