Originally Posted by
Gweedo1
But then again, there is this site dedicated to c/f failures:
Busted Carbon
I still don't trust my c/f fork like I would a good steel fork. Just the warning I got from my LBS about being careful with car roof racks was disturbing enough. I'll be keeping an eye on it regularly, looking for cracks, listening for odd sounds etc. I'm *a little bit* "spooked" to say the least.
A few things:
That website is old. The newest photo is from 2011. Also, considering how many millions of carbon bike there all around the world, right now, it isn't hard to come up with a few photos of products that failed.
Ever test ever run shows carbon is stronger asnd more durable than any other material ever used to make a bike frame.
The LBS that told you to be careful about putting your carbon form in a bikie rack are idiots. Shop somewhere else.
As to your fork, a myriad of factories have been making millions of carbon forks for decades now. If there was really a problem don't you think it would have surfaced by now? If it had, due to liability issues, all of those factories would have immendiately stopped making carbon forks.
You have nothing at all to worry about. Your carbon fork may outlast you.