I accidentally hung up a carbon fork on the ceiling somewhere my garage door would crash into the carbon when opened last week. The wooden garage door ended up bending in half and the carbon fork just has a scratch.

So they are surprisingly strong. This was just a cheap $65 PROMEND FK-416 fork as well, barely one step above the lowest grade Toseek forks.

That said, I like high bars so I made sure to buy a carbon fork with a metal steerer. So I'm not trusting my steerer to lowest grade carbon.