Originally Posted by Darin
My road bike does NOT have carbon forks, I feel safer. A nice ding from a passing car throwing a rock against them would make me nervous. It does however have a carbon seat post.
Well, that's all that is. A feeling. In your mind. Carbon forks have been on road bikes for years and perform just as well, if not better than their steel and aluminum counterparts, so much so that they're almost ubiquitous now. It's very *difficult* to find a road bike, even road bikes under $1000, with a steel fork, and aluminum forks are all but extinct. Sure, we see carbon forks explode. But we see steel and aluminum bend and snap with equally disastrous results...why are people so much more afraid when it's carbon failing than steel or aluminum? My uncle had a steel fork go on him in a crash and the result was two pretty traumatic puncture wounds in his throat from what was left of the legs (and don't ask me how he crashed, but I've seen the hideous scars).