jim beam said:looked at your pics too. yuk.
I hope you mean "yuck" as in "that's very nasty" and not "yuk" as in laughing ("yuk yuk yuk"😉. No
desire to be the spelling police, but in this context, laughing at someone's crash from a fork
failure doesn't sit well with me.
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is your friend certain there was no sounds from the fork at any point prior to failure? i ask for
two reasons:
1. on mine, after inspecting after the first cracking noise and seeing no damage, i wondered if
i'd been imagining it.
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2. i've seen people swear up, down & sideways that there was nothing wrong with a piece of
machinery before it suddenly & mysteriously stopped working.
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That's what he told me about a year after the crash. No relation to the long time period between the
crash and me talking to him though. Perhaps he had some "selective" memory and "forgot" about the
creaking. Perhaps the concussion had something to do with it. Perhaps post tramatic stress??
But I took his words at face value because:
1. He didn't have a reason to lie to me. Kestral perhaps, but not me. When he told me the story, I
did not yet form the idea to take the fork to Kestral myself. Maybe he just tells everyone the
same "lie" so he doesn't have to remember what was told to the last guy.
2. He was a junior national cyclocross champion so he knows the difference between abusing a bike,
riding hard, riding light... Of course, he may also have a different definition of "abuse of a
bike". Also, he has great bike handling skills and should therefore be able to avoid more
potholes and other objects. That would minimize the number of impacts seen by the fork.
3. He's a machinist and very mechanically inclined. He understands that creaking noise coming from
the front end of a bike probably is not good. His bike history probably tells him this as well
although when he raced, carbon fiber was not available (to cyclist in general).
Another option is that *I* could be full of [censored] and made everything up! Hey, it is a NG on the
internet! You'll have to decide that one. But the original poster wanted info on EMS forks and I
complied. Somebody wanted pics and I complied. ...I ain't that good at photo editing :-)
All I can say is I ride with the same fork and am very conscious of noises coming from the front
end. However, I do ride and feel confident in the fork. Confident, but conscious.
Quoted message said:my opinion based on this experience: for whatever reason, people often don't paint a complete
picture of observable circumstances before a failure.
I understand you're not accusing anybody of any deliberate attempts at deception and that you're
just providing other possibilities.
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