On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:13 AM, David Feldman wrote:
> I'd bet that a good number of forks of every material
> have broken in PR. Vintage content: A friend of mine
> broke his then-12 year old Teledyne Titan fork's
> steerer in a very minor fall on some railroad tracks;
> he picked himself up, brushed himself off, rode home,
> and took the fork out of the bike to find out why it
> steered funny only to discover a spiralled crack
> around the steerer.
> David Feldman
> Vancouver, WA
Back in the mid 1970s Don Dragaset, who owned John's Bike Shop in Pasadena, snapped off the end of his Teledyne Titan's titanium fork as he was riding out his driveway going from the apron to the street, a one inch drop! He must have weighed all of 140 pounds too.
Something to think about...
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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