PenttitheFinn
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Inquest results into Sudbury riders forks failure
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Ajax Bay
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Extract/precis:
When Mr Weatherley braked (assumed at about 20mph) the bonding between the fork carbon-fibre blades and aluminium fork crown failed. The bonding material hadn’t adequately bonded the two parts of the fork.
Represented at Mr Weatherley’s inquest was Upgrade Bikes, a West Sussex-based firm which has issued a recall notice for all bikes fitted with a Racelight T Carbon Fork 2003-2009. Since issuing a recall notice last October (2015) after the fault was identified, the company said only 246 out of around 2,000 had been returned so far. They stopped sourcing the forks in 2009 and said “every effort” was being made to recall the ones sent out to the general public.
When Mr Weatherley braked (assumed at about 20mph) the bonding between the fork carbon-fibre blades and aluminium fork crown failed. The bonding material hadn’t adequately bonded the two parts of the fork.
Represented at Mr Weatherley’s inquest was Upgrade Bikes, a West Sussex-based firm which has issued a recall notice for all bikes fitted with a Racelight T Carbon Fork 2003-2009. Since issuing a recall notice last October (2015) after the fault was identified, the company said only 246 out of around 2,000 had been returned so far. They stopped sourcing the forks in 2009 and said “every effort” was being made to recall the ones sent out to the general public.
