Originally Posted by Machka
The snapped forks I saw broke under a guy who wasn't very big ... and who was riding downhill on a very smooth road. He was hospitalized.
That's two carbon failures (my seatpost and his forks) I've seen in less than a year ... and enough for me to consider carbon as a non-viable material for a bicycle.
The seemingly sporadic faliure of carbon fiber has got to be either misuse or manufacturing defects, not a flaw with the material itself.