Selling a bike with chainsuck gouges on the frame.

[Globalti]

Our 2013 Roubaix Comp is going on the market soon and it has three gouges made by the chain where it once got stuck between the chainring and the RH chainstay. The gouges are for the full depth of the lacquer but haven't gone through the paint to the frame material. We are keen to present the bike honestly and openly, for two reasons; firstly because we're like that and secondly because we don't want to disappoint the buyer or worse, have to take the bike back.

Do we rub down to the paint and re-spray the BB area with a rattle can of clear lacquer?

Get the entire frame touched up and re-lacquered, something the chap at Atlantic Boulevard often does to refresh carbon frames?

Do nothing and include a picture of the damage on the Ebay ad?

 

[Andy_R]

Repair with nail varnish, then photo the repairs and include them in the ebay ad, explaining exactly what they are.

 

[dan_bo]

Meself I'd lacquer it and point it out in the ad.

 

[Booyaa]

Meself I'd lacquer it and point it out in the ad.

Exactly this.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Is this the one you found in the canal?

 

[biggs682]

Do nothing and include a picture of the damage on the Ebay ad?

personally thats what i would do , then if new owner wants to do anything they have a clean playing field

 

[Globalti]

Is this the one you found in the canal?

Hell no, I sold that over a year ago. This was its replacement, which GtiJ has been riding for a year or so. And it was the brook, not a canal, I've found a couple of good bikes dropped off bridges into rivers.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Hell no, I sold that over a year ago. This was its replacement, which GtiJ has been riding for a year or so. And it was the brook, not a canal, I've found a couple of good bikes dropped off bridges into rivers.

Ha! You must live in a posher area than me, only things in my rivers are fish n Asda trolleys.

 

[Globalti]

Well the first one was in about 1970 when I lived in Oxfordshire, my school pal and spotted a bike lying under a bridge on the river Thame so we fished it out with a hook on a string. It turned out to be a baker's delivery bike so we sawed off the basket, which was actually part of the frame, and rebuilt it as a chopper with a small front wheel. It got stolen from the cellar undeneath us as we ate lunch one day after we had moved up to Newcastle.