Originally Posted by
XxHaimBondxX
Picked this up for parts, but hard to believe this is all it takes to salvage a carbon frame. Looks like something fell on the top tube, chipping and cracking the paint, still not a crash. Any way to save this?
Hard to tell from the pictures, I'd chip off as much paint as I could to get a better view of the carbon: lighter lines equals delamination, but there could be other damage you can't see - it needs an ultrasound scan. Any carbon frame is fixable if you spend enough, but often not really worth it. This is the price you pay for high performance plastic - that ding in a steel frame would just be annoying.