Fuming!

[Welsh wheels]

Flaming wind! Flaming brick wall!

 

[damj]

Nightmare, will it tcut or touch up?

 

[slowmotion]

The ultimate put-down on a building site when a newbie turns up is........

"........your tools look very clean......."

 

[bpsmith]

Gutted for you. It's always a trade off whether to touch in or not. Very difficult not to make it worse.

 

[ianrauk]

Gah...

 

[slowmotion]

Just regard it as evidence that it's been put to good use. I scuffed a new frame quite badly within six weeks of taking delivery, due to "furious" and reckless riding. That was about four years ago and I don't lose any sleep about it. It's just a bike, not a holy relic.

 

[vickster]

New bike time

 

[Cronorider]

That is a real bummer.

 

[Salty seadog]

Bought a new bike in 1996, a Univega 502. Outside the shop, adjusting the saddle position, I dropped the borrowed multitool and chipped paint off the chain stay. It got a matter of inevitability out of the way early on.

That's the way sir.....one must remain philosophical about such matters......

......or don't matters....

 

[slowmotion]

If you take preciousness too far, you will end up with plastic sheeting protecting your new carpets.

It's not healthy.

 

[swee'pea99]

It's got character now. It's yours. Could have been one of hundreds/thousands before; now it's unique.

(Also, as others have said a) It was bound to happen sooner or later, assuming you actually use it, and b) so what? It's a bike!)

 

[Tangoup51]

We've all been there. my bike hugged a lamppost, slid down and "kissed" a protruding ring as it fell. Put a tiny dent in my top tube; but more importantly f@*$! the paint right up. - Red is not a good color to remedy, but I tried my best.

You can see where I painted above the scuff mark on the grey, It was by hand. - I later went over it with some T-Cup to cut and blend the paint in better, sadly, the paint on that frame was air brushed on, using un-thinned paint by hand would always stand out -

It was honestly quite enjoyable to remedy this.
You bury your frustrations with each layer of paint.

 

[bpsmith]

That’s a great effort @Tangoup51. Somewhat easier with a larger area than lots of smaller ones which are smaller than most brushes.

Probably easier to get a paint pen for this example maybe.

 

[Oldfentiger]

Vaguely on topic....
Mick Doohan, when donning pristine new racing leathers for the first time, would throw himself on the ground to christen them before racing.
Apparently it was not an uncommon superstition among bike racers back in the day.

 

[ianrauk]

Bought a brand new carbon Spesh Roubaix. Rode it home. Wheeling into the conservatory when the door decided to close. Caught the seat stay causing a nice little dink.