krakatoa
Active Member
Hello,
A while back I had an accident on my carbon road bike (which has full carbon forks and an allow stem/bars).
I was knocked off when almost stationary by another cyclist and fell on my side (broke my collar bone, but that's not the point)
The front wheel was buckled slightly (nothing major, but it needed to be replaced) - in doing so, it was pulled out of the forks a bit (i.e. directly after the accident, the front wheel was a few millimetres out of the eyelets)
I've checked the rest of the bike and it looks/rides fine. I'm totally confident that's ok.
I've taken the forks out of the frame and had a look and they *look* 100% fine.
.... but I am now feeling a bit worried about the forks. I suppose that if I wanted to be totally safe, I'd throw them away and get new ones - but that going to be expensive and tedious (they match the frame and not sure if I can get a direct replacement).
I mean, worst case scenario.... the forks have some damage that I can't see and they collapse underneath me down a hill @ 30mph :/ - should I be worried??? Any thoughts?
A while back I had an accident on my carbon road bike (which has full carbon forks and an allow stem/bars).
I was knocked off when almost stationary by another cyclist and fell on my side (broke my collar bone, but that's not the point)
The front wheel was buckled slightly (nothing major, but it needed to be replaced) - in doing so, it was pulled out of the forks a bit (i.e. directly after the accident, the front wheel was a few millimetres out of the eyelets)
I've checked the rest of the bike and it looks/rides fine. I'm totally confident that's ok.
I've taken the forks out of the frame and had a look and they *look* 100% fine.
.... but I am now feeling a bit worried about the forks. I suppose that if I wanted to be totally safe, I'd throw them away and get new ones - but that going to be expensive and tedious (they match the frame and not sure if I can get a direct replacement).
I mean, worst case scenario.... the forks have some damage that I can't see and they collapse underneath me down a hill @ 30mph :/ - should I be worried??? Any thoughts?