Originally Posted by
Maelochs
If you buy a bike used, the age of the bike is irrelevant. I could buy a CF Synapse tomorrow, practice doing ten-foot drops the next day, and sell it the day after .... "It only has about ten miles on it!" But most of the mileage was straight down with about two tons of force.
My thoughts exactly. Who knows the history of the bike? A previous crash could have weakened the fork so that it would eventually fail.