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Old 12-12-11 | 01:14 PM
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mtnbke
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Bikes: '92 22" Cannondale M2000, '92 Cannondale R1000 Tandem, another modern Canndondale tandem, Two Holy Grail '86 Cannondale ST800s 27" (68.5cm) Touring bike w/Superbe Pro components and Phil Wood hubs. A bunch of other 27" ST frames & bikes.

Originally Posted by diabloridr
Hope you don't have a carbon fork on any of your bikes.

It might try to kill you one of these days.

Carbon has it own idiosyncrasies, but it in no way the fragile material you make it out to be.
Of course I don't. However, about the only epoxy fork that would work for me would be the Zinn/Alpha Q Z-Pro, due both to weight it can spec to handle and the needed extra long steerer. However, epoxy forks (the carbon just sounds sexy, but material gets its strength from the glue, not the agent used to lay the glue) aren't durable, have a frightening failure rate compared to steel forks (pay attention to how often you see see or read about anecdotes of someones steel fork/component failing catastrophically). Steel builds lousy bikes and even lousier tandems, but makes for a great fork.

Check out:

http://www.bustedcarbon.com/
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