but there are rumors that you enjoy taunting the Grim Reaper and ride a Teledyne titanium frame with the original fork!

of course, you're not a heavy person and probably not putting a ton of miles on that potentially delicate fork, so the risks are not so great.

Similarly(?), modern CF frames are engineered better than the early ones and if you are reasonable, the risks are quite small. I've put over 20k miles on a CF recumbent and it has survived as well as my steel frame bikes. This is just anecdotal evidence, as is most of what has been mentioned in this thread, so it mostly just means that the lethality of CF frames is below 100%.

There is a fellow on youtube who started as life working with CF in the aviation industry and is now using those skills looking for potential damage in CF bike frames and doing some repairs, if I recall correctly. He does a bit of destructive analysis now and then, by cutting damaged frames in half and looking at the quality of the construction. Very interesting and informative!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY9...4lLOHpb_zbIedQ

Steve in Peoria