Originally Posted by
Lazyass
You need a story to go with the photo.
Let's assume the girl with the arm in the sling broke the fork and hurt her arm. Was that JRA (Just riding along)? Or did something else happen? Crashing into a parked car at high speed? Getting something caught in the spokes?
Or, perhaps riding on a fork that had been previously damaged in a crash, or ignoring obvious cracks.
There are plenty of photos of steel bikes with bent forks, or the toptube/downtube bends after crashes.
Of course, there are advantages of not having to walk home after a crash, even if one has to twist the stem backwards to get adequate wheel clearance with a bent fork
Originally Posted by
Lazyass
Hard to see what is going on there.
I see a pile of random carbon fiber bike parts.
There is one fork that appears severed, again without a cause mentioned.
Several seat posts missing pieces. Were those considered damaged (but not broken in half?) HOW?
Two apparently intact handlebars too. Were they damaged? Crash damaged?