ever bent / break your forks?
10-23-08, 11:25 AM
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ever bent / break your forks?
what kind of forks were you using? what brand? what material?
where did you break them? how did you break them?
share your story.
where did you break them? how did you break them?
share your story.
10-23-08, 03:01 PM
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Bent a couple. First one was a mongoose fork off a fuzz pro. I was launching out of a 3.5 ft mini ramp and nose dived, ended up breaking my collar bone too. Second was a Fit flow fork, bent forward a bit from doing alot of disasters.
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ran into a tyre-height fence at full speed on an old 80s mongoose. forks bent backwards just below where the blades join the steerer, they stopped bending when the tyre hit the frame and i went over the bars. i ended up twisting the stem around (remember quill stems?) and riding home with a crazy 4" rake
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ran into a tyre-height fence at full speed on an old 80s mongoose. forks bent backwards just below where the blades join the steerer, they stopped bending when the tyre hit the frame and i went over the bars. i ended up twisting the stem around (remember quill stems?) and riding home with a crazy 4" rake
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hah no, it was about 10pm. 
by the time i saw there was a fence there i only had time to think "oh ****" and go limp
by the time i saw there was a fence there i only had time to think "oh ****" and go limp
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Yeah I bent my first ones, I did a large step up, being first in a 6 person train, and my front tire just clipped the cinder block landing, and I went over, and 5 outta the 6 kids nailed my bike =[, When it was brand new.
Then I got dk Octanes, and bent them some how, That im not sure.
Ocatnes are made outta 100% heat-treated chromoly [ Copied from danscomp. ]
Then I got dk Octanes, and bent them some how, That im not sure.
Ocatnes are made outta 100% heat-treated chromoly [ Copied from danscomp. ]
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oh geez!!! broken forks!!
s&m pitch forks (original ones).... cracked steer tube
the original 41thermal odyssey's.... bent
2-hip.... torn off a drop out
kink forks.... snapped
race classics.... snapped dropouts
directors.... so far so good!!! (about a year old now)
s&m pitch forks (original ones).... cracked steer tube
the original 41thermal odyssey's.... bent
2-hip.... torn off a drop out
kink forks.... snapped
race classics.... snapped dropouts
directors.... so far so good!!! (about a year old now)
