Originally Posted by grolby

In case the thread title didn't give it away, I just broke the fork on my Miyata 210 touring bike. The right fork blade is broken through almost all the way around, right up near the crown. The LBS guy thinks that my lowrider front rack holding everything together is the only reason that I'm not in the hospital now. It really is broken almost completely off. The weird thing is that I'm not sure how this failure happened! I haven't really mistreated this bike, and I'm a lightweight - 125 lbs. The position of the crack is such that braking forces would aggravate it, but I have no idea how it could have gotten started. Do these forks have a record of breaking that I'm not aware of? I've never heard of such a thing, but I wonder if anyone else has broken one of these, and if so, how did you do it?

Thanks!