Cro-mo Road Forks

Quoted post said:

Originally posted by Poiter
A friend has come across a nice road frame but doesn't want to put plastic..errr carbon forks on it.

Pete

Tell him to just grin and bare it. After all, if he's doing that when his C fork fails, he can get some nifty Ti tooth implants.

idiot

Quoted message said:

Originally posted by Poiter
A friend has come across a nice road frame but doesn't
want to put plastic..errr carbon forks on it.

So many bikes have carbon forks on them now...

Has anyone seen data on the number of accidents caused by
carbon forks compared to those caused by alu or steel forks?

curiouser hippy

Haven't seen any data on the relative failure rates of steel
forks vs CF forks, but I've seen two riders suffer
reasonably serious injuries when their carbon fork blades
snapped while they were riding...doesn't stop me having two
bikes with carbon forks though.

I've never seen a steel fork fail in such a spectacular
fashion. I had one once where the steerer tube started to
come loose in the fork crown, but that just started feeling
like the headset was loose, and when I found the headset
wasn't loose, I looked further and found the fault with the
bike on the workstand rather than out on the road.

Nick

hippy said:

So many bikes have carbon forks on them now...

Has anyone seen data on the number of accidents caused
by carbon forks compared to those caused by alu or
steel forks?

hippy said:

Quoted message said:

Originally posted by Poiter A friend has come across a
nice road frame but doesn't want to put plastic..errr
carbon forks on it.

So many bikes have carbon forks on them now...

Has anyone seen data on the number of accidents caused
by carbon forks compared to those caused by alu or
steel forks?

curiouser hippy

See my latest post on the Dream Bike topic. But not all
carbon forks are created equal :-)

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Regards. Richard.