Originally Posted by Tree
Well, believe it or not, often times this is how carbon bike parts will fail. Without warning and catastrophic. I hope you or I never have to find this out the hard way.
I have no problem with the Kestrel fork. In fact I have one on my bike. Your insinuation that the fork failure in the original post could have been prevented simply by chosing a better brand of fork is optimistic at best. Carbon fiber bike parts can and will break. No manufacturer's parts are immune to this.
i'll go with that for the most part. but that guy's story about his 125lb friend's carbon fork spontaneously collapsing on itself and rendering him broken and unconscious is suspicous at best. at BEST.
unless there was some serious existing damage or a big frontal impact, the fork would not simply give out and collapse. the idiot probably ran into a curb and THEN went "cruising down the street" with a beer in his hand.
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Last edited by Chucklehead; 08-03-05 at 08:34 PM.