Hi,

I'm just asking a question rather than disagreeing with what has been said :

Assumption (front to back is right to left):
A front wheel prang ends up putting a lot of anticlockwise tension in
the top tube causing any failure to occur on the top near the headset.

Proposition :
This is opposite to the normal stresses on the tube for riding and bumps.
Except for heavy front braking, essentially a milder version of the prang,
but front braking can't cause the high stress inertia allows in a prang.

Question :
Am I missing something thinking it won't rapidly get worse ?

Disclaimer :
If the damage is actually as bad as it looks from the paint, I would
never trust it, but I have heard of paint making things look worse,
(i.e. the paint cracking below the elastic limits of the tubing).

rgds, sreten.