Cervelo especially https://www.instagram.com/p/BXDfhUNDZxq/

Warranty job? Chopped a fair few frames for warranty.

Fitting a hidden motor?

You monster. 😯

It’s just a sticker

Slingshot conversion?

Frankenbike

We were kicking a £5k carbon frame round the workshop the other day that had been damaged in transit and need to be destroyed. It’s very satisfying.

I’m hoping this mod involves spoons.

Got to be a warranty jobbie.

Good idea to put wood in the vice to protect the frame!

I cut a Scott Spark in half lengthways some years ago. Very interesting!

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I cut a Scott Spark in half lengthways some years ago. Very interesting!

Were you making a mould tool to make your own copies?

Had to cut up my crashed Boardman with pictures as proof to the insurers, strangely satisfying. Also cut up an old, broken Specialized FSR XC frame I had too. Scary how thin the metal is on the tubes!!

As above. My guess is either warranty or insurance. Both may require proof that the original bike is beyond use before paying for a replacement…

Says it’s warranty proof in the comments.

Did you measure twice?

Some people will go to extreme lengths to get away from pressfit bottom brackets.

He’s retro fitting a motor.

Instructions say “cut seatpost downtube here …… ”

Serious weight saving.

That’ll polish out, surely?

Would have loved to have run in with a mobile in my hand shouting, “wrong frame, wrong frame!” 😀

That’s how you fit internal cables isn’t it?

Let the saw do the work.

I have no idea why I still have this (and it’s disconcerting how easy it was to find compared to useful stuff)

A recall rather than a warranty – I had to send a pic of it sawn in half to get a new one

ernest moss mode on….

I hope you were wearing a dust mask.

Just fit eTap and be done!

The position of the vacuum nozzle makes me think this is the OP

I have a Felt AR FRD frame just two feet away from me that arrived knackered. I didn’t have to send it back or destroy it to get a refund. I offered to send back the forks, seatpost, headset etc., but they didn’t want me to. It does seem like it ought to be repairable in theory, but would cost a good few hundred I reckon, and even then… Could use it as a turbo mule but would still need a half decent repair, which would cost as much as a cheap frame anyway.

So, I don’t have a decent use for it, but can’t yet bring myself to destroy or ditch it. It’s very pretty though. And the RRP was something mad like £2500.

Gray

Good idea to put wood in the vice to protect the frame!

LOL.

I quite like the fact you can see some of the weave delaminating as (s)he goes through the frame – obviously should’ve wrapped in masking tape too before cutting.

Double post oops.