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Old 10-03-20, 05:09 PM
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If you buy it, run your finger under the fork crown. If you cannot feel the inside of the steerer; in other words, if there is not a hole in the bottom of the crown DON'T RIDE THAT FORK! They can and did break completely without warning on completely routine impacts. Mine broke on a bunny hop over a re-paved construction ditch I'd hopped probably 100 times. Fork and front wheel just snapped off clean. Broken collarbone, some road rash, 5 day coma and 7 years before I had enough put back together to back to school and retake my undergrad degree.

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