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Old September 30th 09, 03:47 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
jim beam[_5_]
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Default Broken steel road bike fork

On 09/29/2009 02:16 PM, Still Just Me! wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:42:51 -0700, jim wrote:

for the future, consider quality cfrp - unless abused, it's pretty much
"fatigue proof".


The fact that it was steel and demonstrated fatigue instead of just
failing catastrophically (like crappy fiber does when it fails) is the
only thing that saved him.


er, so a failure is better than a non-failure??? because you're
confused between fatigue and over-load or abuse??? jeepers dude, you're
winning that stupidity contest again!



As always, your advice is useless.


no, i cast pearls before ignorant incapable swine.
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