Originally Posted by
SortaGrey
That is what I thought too.. after seeing a golf shaft shattered by much intentional abuse yrs ago. I hung the icicle label on due to a couple online reports of bikes going down the rd and the carbon blade just snapped off. One instant your riding.. the next the guy woke in the ER.
Well, the blade didn't "just" snap off - the carbon would almost certainly have been failing for some time. It's just that the imminent failure wasn't obvious like it probably would've been on a metal fork. Fibre-reinforced composites are generally
very good at dealing with cracks.