Originally Posted by Flaneur
Maybe you haven't received more replies from tourers using carbon forks because there aren't so many of them yet?
I would rather wait for the long term reliability of these items -in many tough environments- to be established before changing from something I know to be safe, reliable and durable. It's still fairly recent advances in the technology that have made this discussion feasible.........
Thanks. Right you are. There are probably just a handful of people in N. America touring around on carbon forks. And yet -- as I said above -- you'd be hard pressed to find a cyclo-cross bike without carbon forks!
I agree that the technological advances are recent. I've spoken to two bike-makers and they are totally convinced that the testing done on carbon has revealed it to be resilient and tough, within limits (i.e., collision). Some of these repetitive stress tests have subjected carbon to 50,000 plus repetitions. But what do tourers say? I'm still hoping for replies!