Originally Posted by KiwiDallas

Gee, thanks.

I think I'd have noticed if I hit a branch hard enough to break a carbon fiber frame. I'd guess that would have taken out a few spokes, too, but apparently not.

But, as I'm learning in this thread, so many Internet experts who weren't there and haven't seen the bike (or seen me, or talked to the LBS managers) have better knowledge of what must have happened.

--The OP