Originally Posted by
Mr_quadzilla
If I hadn't been involved... I'd probably call bull**** too. However, after looking at that other c-dale fork failure that looks exactly like mine I'm wondering if I have the order of events right. I can't rule out the damn thing just failed and in the process I experienced what seemed like being lifted up. I still think the wind took me, but it happened too fast. On a side note a woman driving saw me crash and saw the same thing I experienced, me being lifted up and smacked down.
Since the snap is clean, I'm guessing this was a straight forward breakage with the trailing edge severing last. The straightening of the blades as they snapped could have felt like a slight vaulting motion, but I doubt it was the wind picking you up.
Glad you're OK. I've only seen one other CF fork failure similar to this in person (and it wasn't on a C'dale). Blades were snapped clean right around the midpoint of their length, and the rider wasn't a very big guy.