Thread: Catastrophic Front fork failure: Trek 5900
View Single Post
Old 10-31-12, 11:16 AM
  #44  
JohnDThompson 
Old fart
 
JohnDThompson's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Appleton WI
Posts: 24,816

Bikes: Several, mostly not name brands.

Mentioned: 153 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3599 Post(s)
Liked 3,424 Times in 1,947 Posts
Originally Posted by merlinextraligh
Steel and aluminum forks fail also.

I'm not aware of any data that suggests CF forks spontaneously fail at a higher rate than CF. Based on frame fatigue tests for various materials, My bet would be that modern CF forks fail at a lower rate than Steel and Aluminum forks used to.
FWIW, during the several years I worked as Trek's warranty inspector (1983-86) I didn't have a single claim involving a failed steel fork.
JohnDThompson is offline  
Reply