New bike already failing - 24 hours

It'd be a lot lot worse if they hadn't tightened your tracknuts enough so as to save your paintwork.

i would let it go tbh. but then i probably wouldn't even have noticed.

I only noticed because was sat next to the bike on the floor as I removed my shoes with fingers rendered fairly useless from the cold last night.

I'll leave it, as Pig Farmer says maybe this is in the same category as "chicks dig scars", and signs of use will improve it.

fail

fail

Me?

The bike?

The UK's financial system?

Bike are meant to be used

use it

The only bikes that don't deserve paint chips are in the museum

just seen this, just forget it, there is nothing you can do and it'll only happen again, unfortunately.

Two different bikes- Kowalski's and my own, are pictured.

'snot mine, dude.

Looted that image off flickr.

The Pink Pinacolada doesn't have painted forks.

Sorry to have confused the issue in that case.

No worries.

Really Dammit? the nuts will always bite the paint. That's normal.
I really don't think the quality of the pait job has anything to do with it. (armourtex aside)
If it did that would be saying that Mercian (who do a 7 coat job) are shit, which they are not.

It'd be a lot lot worse if they hadn't tightened your tracknuts enough so as to save your paintwork.

+1

Use tippex.

my forks are covered in black permanent marker to hide my various idiocies

I think the photo's are not doing me any favours- I would expect the nuts to mark the forks, that's obvious.

What seems to be happening on the forks is that the pressure of the nuts on the paint is causing it to crack off the forks in sheets- well away from where the nut grips the fork ends.

It's hard to describe- but essentially it is not doing what Kowalski's photo showed, which would be normal.

Meh.

ride it!

the bike
who ever put it together
too tight i think

Mine flaked off in larger chunks too, it's to do with the paint and it's adhesion to the metal. Let it chip off
then touch it up if you feel the need. Rusty lugs FTW!

This is really quite normal, you'd be hard pushed to find a fixed gear bike which still has painted dropouts in perfect condition! That's why a lot of frames will have unpainted or chromed dropouts.
But yes, as many have said before me, don't worry about it!

Just got home and spotted this (apologies for the iPhone pics)

Slightly different angle:

Please forgive the shoes in the background.

Anyway- looks to me like the shop over tightened the axle nuts, and as a result the paint is peeling off the forks.

Am I being a dick to find this annoying, and want the shop to sort it out?

Take it back. The carbon may be comprimsed as well. 24 hours is when to do it. If they give you shit talk louder. You just bought it.

^ however, he has got his engineer buddy to drill the (previously) undrilled forks - he probably did a good job but that will probably also compromise any attempt to get a refund/exchange.

^ however, he has got his engineer buddy to drill the (previously) undrilled forks - he probably did a good job but that will probably also compromise any attempt to get a refund/exchange.

Not good! That's a bit of a sticky wicket! I would still do my thoroughly incensed act. give it your best.

Would you rather they not have done the nuts up tight enough then?

You say the carbon might be compromised?
Surely they must be alloy dropouts bonded to carbon forks?

yup, there should be alloy ends to the drop-outs, not carbon, otherwise it would just crush.

yup, there should be alloy ends to the drop-outs, not carbon, otherwise it would just crush.

Not quite true, 31.

http://www.eastonbike.com/PRODUCTS/FORKS/09/fork_ec90_SLX_%2709.html

But the fork ends on the Fuji are almost certainly alloy.