My favorite story, however, is about Eugene Christophe, whose front forks broke on a descent in the Pyrenees. He carried the bike five miles to a village, borrowed tools at a blacksmith's shop, and forged new forks, repaired the bike and then resumed the race.
Does he mean dropouts? Aside from the fact that a fork breaking on a descent might leave you incapable of walking 5 miles, and the comparative difficulty of forging a new fork, who calls it a forks?