this isn't a helmet thread. thanks.

That's not unusual at all-- I've seen a few steel forks and frames seriously bent back while barely knocking the front wheel out of true. I've done it myself. The most impressive I've seen was someone's Merckx track frame had the down tube bent with a big arc in it, exactly the radius of a wheel and bending the tube in an inch or more, while the ends of the tube were pretty much still straight. It was like something out of a cartoon.

The wheel is designed to take really big radial loads over and over around any point on its circumference. Think about what happens every time you hit a pothole- occasionally you'll trash a wheel, but usually you're just mad at the person in front of you for taking you over it. The fork and head tube are designed to take those loads pretty much pointed up from the road, not back from the front with a large lever arm (the fork length). Forks are generally pretty weak against the kind of force you get when you plow into something like a guardrail at 30 mph and will bend, as would the head-tube to down-tube joint on steel bikes.

It's not? :bang:

only if you want to go down that reflicted road, sparky.

this makes me very nervous about my new (used) cannondale with carbon fork/carbon steerer which I installed myself and is a little bit jiggly!!

Spinergy wheels are on my list of future purchases.

Not feeling any love for Liz Hatch? Here's a reason why you should: She loves beer.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3181/...59bb95.jpg?v=0


She also haz pretty friends who also probably love beer.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/...418335.jpg?v=0

found this rather interesting....
 

check out the crash photo of this BH.......

http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com/2008...-g4-crash.html

fork sheered it same exact spot......

That... was funy.

That's three chicks who look like they've been rode hard and put away wet.

i see what you did there.

:lol:

Spinergys creek like a mofo'.

Don't get into a Self Loathing Contest with me kid.

I know a thing or two about Loathing; after all, HE is the topic of my master's thesis: :thumb:

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j4...thompson_c.jpg

Someone should tell her that if she needs to wipe off the excess lube from her chain, a shop rag is the ticket. If she absolutely has to use her hands, goop or gojo will get rid of the mess better than her method.

I volunteer to apply and remove said goop or gojo.

Fear and Loathing is a little different than Self Loathing Sushi Joe.

Accurate.dat

It would be like comparing a Vincent Black Shadow to a Cervelo.

True, but they do share similar techniques in Loathing (as evidenced by my pitiful race results last year).

She seams cool to me...

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/2...b2f9c5biy6.jpg

Looks like the fork was already cracking in that shot....wait...just graphics.....or ARE THEY??!!:roflmao2:

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oh sheeyat... nom, nom, nom. :eek: