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Originally Posted by
FrenchFit
LOL, I bet they have wet dreams about finding cracked carbon parts. I recall Grant's post about the dumpster filled with the carbon forks his customers didn't want to ride. I'm still looking for that dumpster...
I suspect CF has a life cycle equal to or exceeding steel. But, not if it's damaged...and that's the rub. Who knows? I might agree with those who advise a two year limit to those owners who routinely trash and crash their bikes...CF is a timebomb for them. Me, I bet I'd get two lifetimes out of a well made CF fork.
From the post we read on forks form 2002 is seems as if the forks could last a very long time. But where the rubber meets the road is in the US more people buy Aluminum and CF road bikes than they do any other material. There is a reason for that and it isn't marketing because it was purely customer driven. The manufacturers simply responded to customer wants. That is the very same reason steel bikes are getting lighter as well, customer demand. Even many custom builders are using CF forks for both Aluminum, Steel and Scandium road bikes. No one seems interested in adding a steel fork to their CF, Aluminum or Scanduim road bike to make them "safer". More MTBs are sold in Aluminum than anything else but the CF market is growing pretty fast.
So as they say in court, the question has been asked and answered. The CF fork on the OPs bike will more than likely last a long time if it isn't crashed. And they simply don't make any other forks people want to use to smooth out their ride.
