Originally Posted by genericbikedude
Carbon forks are vaguely lighter than aluminum, but both are lots of fun, because of CATASTROPHIC FAILURE. Yippee! And when you pluck it, it goes "clunk" instead of "pink." But I suppose that this makes sense, given that you'll be surely racing criteriums on this bike.
Quit hatin' on carbon! It doesn't fatigue like aluminum does, so catastrophic failure is only going to happen in a crash (where you've probably got bigger things to worry about) or if you have really crappy components. Non-issue for a fork.
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