Steel frame but carbon forks?

[Deleted member 35268]

My winter ride is steel on steel

 

[Venod]

Carbon gives a plusher ride.

I am old enough to remember the introduction of carbon forks to the masses and would agree with Globalti, the first time I rode one it was a strange sensation of lack of road feel but a more comfortable ride, I have a steel forked bike as well as carbon forked ones, I like the ride of the steel bike but it does transfer more vibrations through the fork than my carbon forked bikes.

When I was knocked off couple of years ago the carbon forked legs both snapped off, would the steel ones have bent? who knows.

 

[raleighnut]

I have this idea of a steel bike melting in the heat. Probably never happen mind you.

Oh it will melt but a Carbon bike would have gone up in flames before it got hot enough to melt Steel.

 

[raleighnut]

Why then are the cheapest bikes fitted with a steel fork?

I doubt they're 531 though.

 

[raleighnut]

Of course but @raleighnut didn't say that

I didn't think I needed to but ho-hum.

 

[vickster]

I doubt they're 531 though.

Or 725 or 931 or whatever, but you didn't mention that

They seem to be 'hi-tensile steel' whatever that may be

 

[Nibor]

generic carbon forks are available generic steel ones are not.

 

[raleighnut]

Or 725 or 931 or whatever, but you didn't mention that

They seem to be 'hi-tensile steel' whatever that may be

Scaffold pole.

 

[buzzy-beans]

I doubt they're 531 though.

531 forks for me, give me a ride that dreams are made of!

 

[raleighnut]

View: https://youtu.be/AOC45NTlUvw

 

[Jody]

I have this idea of a carbon fork shattering into a cloud of dust upon hitting a pothole and I cannot shake it. Probably would never happen but prefer a steel fork on a steel bike.

I hit a big pot hole at speed a while back on the only thing which nearly shattered into dust was my wrists. That was so bloody painful.

 

[gaijintendo]

My winter ride is steel on steel

In the bleak midwinter,
Stormy winds may blow,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone,
Winter trainer rolling, steel on steel,
Steel on, steel on, snow,
In the bleak midwinter,
About, a week, ago

 

[bpsmith]

Oh it will melt but a Carbon bike would have gone up in flames before it got hot enough to melt Steel.

Melting point of Carbon - 3,550 degrees C.
Melting point of Steel - 1,370 degrees C.

 

[Colin_P]

Melting point of Carbon - 3,550 degrees C.
Melting point of Steel - 1,370 degrees C.

What about the resin the binds the carbon together?

 

[Randy Butternubs]

What about the resin the binds the carbon together?

I believe it starts to soften around 100 Celsius. The structural integrity of your frame is the least of your problems by that point however.