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Old 07-30-10 | 07:26 AM
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Phantoj
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Originally Posted by wheelgrabber
Do not ride it. Carbon fails catastrophically. It's there one minute, gone the next. This is not a myth. It is a fact.
Obviously, this isn't correct as a general statement -- this guy's fork proves it: it has not yet catastrophically failed, but it has a crack in it.

On the other hand, you'd have to be really stupid to ride on a cracked fork. If your fork fails, it's going to hurt. A lot.
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