Like everything carbon, stuff breaks. My kid apparently has lots of low end torque which resulted in:

The piece with the kink in it is a rubber covering over the carbon.

The doctor recommended taking them to the Ding King for repair.


It's a ratty old building but they have a huge operation in building and repairing surfboards, outrigger canoes, etc. Richard, their carbon guy, took one look and determined the vertical piece was undersized and the footplate weave was in the wrong direction.

He repaired the vertical piece with carbon and laid a piece of fiberglass over that. The footplates were strengthened with additional layers of carbon.
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