Originally Posted by
TMonk
The local repair guy is ex-military and could repair or refab anything - any material, including paint finish. Airplanes, metallic, carbon, otherwise, you know it. Also restores cars. He is an expert craftsman so I trust his opinion, but yeah this is all second hand so take it FWIW. I'm sure that the actual incidence of issues with Canyon is objectively very low, just maybe a bit higher relative to many other brands. In his experience. YMMV and all that.
Years ago I had damage to the top tube of my older TCR. I brought it to him at track one night (his son was a nat champ). He takes one look at it, presses hard on it with his thumb, the tells me it doesn't need repairing, but that he'd do it anyway if I wanted it. He asked if I wanted paint matching, I said no don't bother. The next week he returns it to me, repaired, with paint matching PERFECTLY. Like you can't even tell where the repair was at all, or distinguish the paint job from the rest of the aged frame. Amazing. I handed him a hundred bucks cash and built it back up. Solid.
There used to be a welder/fabricator guy near here. He built dune buggies and could weld anything.
When the transmission failed in my Maico motorcycle it enlarged a hole in the case where a bearing was pressed. A new set of cases was several hundred and I was poor. It's magnesium, too, so most welders don't want anything to do with it. This guy ran little beads in that hole which was about the diameter of a nickel and about 5/8" deep. Amazing work! A friend found a machinist to bore it out to a pressed fit for the bearing and I threw it back together.
I had the same guy weld up a hole in an aluminum a/c line for a customers' car and an aluminum evaporator for my truck. Gotta love finding a craftsman like that.