Fuming!

[Welsh wheels]

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

It's not healthy.

Its not a matter of being precious, it's a matter of being annoyed that a bike that cost a sizeable amount of my worldly wealth, that I tried hard to care of, has been damaged.

 

[Welsh wheels]

Thanks all. Now I've calmed down slightly, I'll try to touch it up once I get home from work.

 

[Vantage]

Flaming wind! Flaming brick wall!


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Ouch!

My bike suffered a similar fate when it was about a month old.
I'd left it locked to one of them big round steel pillars that hold up the roof on a petrol station pump area. Between the lock and it's sloping top tube, the Vantage decided to roll forward leaving an unsightly scuffing along the top tube.

Bit of T-cut though and it's barely noticeable 5 years on.

 

[Bollo]

Guttin'. GWS WW bike.

 

[Dirk]

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.

In my 20 years of motorcycle racing, encompassing the Mick Doohan era, I cannot recall anyone ever doing this or it even being mentioned as a superstition.

 

[Milkfloat]

Thanks all. Now I've calmed down slightly, I'll try to touch it up once I get home from work.

Is that legal?

 

[Oldfentiger]

In my 20 years of motorcycle racing, encompassing the Mick Doohan era, I cannot recall anyone ever doing this or it even being mentioned as a superstition.

I probably read it in Motorcycle News, so that's my excuse if it's bollox

 

[Dirk]

I probably read it in Motorcycle News, so that's my excuse if it's bollox

If it was in MCN, then it's almost certainly so.

 

[Globalti]

Never lean a bike against a pillar or the corner of a wall where the handlebars have nowhere to go it it moves backwards or forwards.

As others have suggested, view the damage as a rite of passage, which means that you won't need to worry now about keeping the bike pristine. You could take the frame into a chemist and buy a bottle of nail varnish of the same colour and carefully touch in the scratches.

 

[Profpointy]

Never lean a bike against a pillar or the corner of a wall where the handlebars have nowhere to go it it moves backwards or forwards.

As others have suggested, view the damage as a rite of passage, which means that you won't need to worry now about keeping the bike pristine. You could take the frame into a chemist and buy a bottle of nail varnish of the same colour and carefully touch in the scratches.

I'd be very wary indeed of using nail varnish (acetone) on any composite such as carbon fibre. Acetone is a brilliant and fearsome solvent which disolves quite a few kinds of plastic. I don't know what the plastic component of carbon fibre is, but I'd not risk it.

 

[ianrauk]

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

It's not healthy.

That scratch/damage is a little too much for preciousness.
A small dink on a new bike, yeah ok. The damage on the OP's bike.. well that it is just crap really and I feel for him/her.

 

[Globalti]

I'd be very wary indeed of using nail varnish (acetone) on any composite such as carbon fibre. Acetone is a brilliant and fearsome solvent which disolves quite a few kinds of plastic. I don't know what the plastic component of carbon fibre is, but I'd not risk it.

I wouldn't worry at all; a tiny blob of nail varnish will dry in a few seconds and in the case of the bike pictured will be applied over the base coat anyway so won't be in contact with the substrate.

I bought a bottle of red for the chipped paint on my old Roubaix and took a small flake of the paint into Boots stuck to some Sellotape. The assistant made it clear she didn't believe my story and thought she was dealing with a tranny. I could almost hear her thinking: "Thank goodness I've done my inclusivity and customer sensitivity training!" The nail varnish did not affect the carbon frame.

 

[Profpointy]

Mmm, I'd worry quite a lot about using acetone on CF. Apparently (after googling) the resins used in CF include epoxy or polyester which are both dissolved by acetone - and acetone is used to clean brushes and the like. I've seen demonstrations of catastrophic failure of polycarbonate motorcycle helmets stressed after a single drop of solvent is applied. This may be a different plastic but I'd really not risk it. You may be right and it's fine, or you may simply have been lucky.

 

[Fenrider]

Look on the bright side - a photo of those unique markings will help prove it's yours when it gets nicked!

 

[Lonestar]

Its not a matter of being precious, it's a matter of being annoyed that a bike that cost a sizeable amount of my worldly wealth, that I tried hard to care of, has been damaged.

Thank god you ain't got a Porsche,mate.