Frame Refinishing

Raoul will host a seminar on the public day about carbon fibre bikes.

Carbon fibre bikes, quality, inspection and repair

As the number of carbon fibre bikes in the market increases, the issues of how to look after these high performance machines becomes more important. Raoul Luescher, the director of Luescher Teknik Pty Ltd, which designs, manufactures, inspects and repairs composite bikes and components will show you what to look for and how identify damage to a carbon fibre bike component. Raoul will also highlight some common problems, how these can be rectified and dispel some myths on the highest performance material currently used in the bike industry.

GripSport is Australia's first and only Specialist Bicycle Engineering company. Besides manufacturing the world's safest/easiest/quickest bike carrying systems for cars, 4wds, trailers and caravans (including models designed especially for carbon, lightweight alloy and awkward shaped frames), we also make more than 25 all-Australian cycling products and custom engineer everything from one-off items up to large production runs for both individual customers and the larger cycling industry. GripSport also pioneered and developed the whole business of frame repairs here in Australia. We repair, modify, powdercoat and paint ALL Aluminium, Titanium, Steel, CrMo & Carbon frames... everything from full-frame rebuilds to removing a stuck seatpost. Again, we do this for individual customers as well as servicing over 700 Australian bike shops. Our current tally is close to 6000 frame repairs and as our reputation has grown over the years we now also get many frames in from overseas (UK, NZ, USA, Fiji and Spain so far). You can see all our products, services and a huge array of "before", "during" and "after" photos of frame repairs at our web site, but of course nothing beats seeing everything in the flesh, so make sure you drop in to our Ausbike stand and say g'day.