"Phil, Squid-in-Training" <
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> "JP" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >
> >> >Here it is a year ago when I first identified the crack:
> >> >http://plaza.ufl.edu/phillee/rbt/p1.jpg
> >> >http://plaza.ufl.edu/phillee/rbt/p2.jpg
> >
> > You found a crack in an integral structural portion of
> > the front fork,
>
> Sure did. Not sure about the back fork though.
>
> > the fork that hits everything first,
>
> If you're a smooth rider, it doesn't.
>
> > the fork that absorbs the impact on downhills,
> > log piles, rock gardens, running over wildlife.
>
> Where did I say I did all this? Does riding a mountain bike *require*
doing
> all these?
>
> > Yet you continued to ride on it.
>
> And...
>
> > The mind boggles.
>
> Yeah, it'd boggle my mind too if I were small-minded.
>
> > Are you campaigning for a Darwin Award?
>
> Nope - I wanted to ride. If you can't accept a certain level of risk, go
> cry back home.
>
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> Phil, Squid-in-Training
For me the risk is inherent in the activity.
Then again my wheels go over bumps.
I don't use equipment I can't trust.
But please for the benefit of my narrow mind..
if you are such a smooth rider then why do you need
suspension in your front fork?
I'd hardly be the one crying back home with a shredded face
and dislocated shoulder resulting from the inevitable endo
when the fork failed. I'd never trust a casting with a crack.
Using the words "catastrophic failure" is a stretch.
Failing with no warning in use is catastrophic.
Failure after six months advance warning is rider error.
Failure after the series of events you described is predictable.
Oh right, you're a student.
You haven't yet learned that you can be seriously, irreparably damaged.
Blind faith in your own indestructable immortality.
You were lucky.
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