Originally Posted by
Severian
I'd say the kid was probably jumping it, endo'd the bike and the whole thing came down on the front wheel all cattywampus.
That's an amazing word.
Originally Posted by
Severian
Well if the wheel was flawless, and there's no accident report or an angry parent. Then I like the idea that the bike was backed into by a car. If the fork was damaged with the wheel properly installed then the wheel would be toast.
I have to admit that looking at a fork which is that badly damaged makes me queasy. Its like looking at someone who has their shoulder or knee dislocated.
I've seen a bunch of ugly things, and I've yet to see one worse than a dislocated ankle (especially when compounded with a severe break in the tibia and fibula. It's like a foot dangling at the end of a chain inside the leg.
Originally Posted by
rs1101
+2.. if the front axle was nutted or a qr was installed properly the fork drops would be all mangled. look on the underside of the left side of the fork, look to see if the bike came down on the fork directly. my theory is that the wheel had to come unfastened somehow for this to happen. is the QR skewer damaged or existing?? can you take pics of the wheel and closeups of the axles? more pics in general?
I'm inclined to say this was not a fatigue issue, and that the wheel was not in the dropouts very well, if at all. The fork legs should be bent together, and the lawyer lips should hold the wheel in, even if the quick release is a bit loose. Given the forces that occur when a wheel is sideways and only in one dropout, I think it is reasonable that a kid could have tumbled to safety, and still done this to a bike. If not, you're being lied to somewhere. There's no way this is a pure JRA. I've seen forks with broken bridges, and that isn't what they look like normally.