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@Bobbygp
I've been helping my girlfriend's friend acquire a bike to potter about London on and pointed her in the direction of a Kona AfricaBike on eBay which looked appropriate. She bought it and I gave it a check over, a little bit ragged and maybe a tad overpriced but salvageable.
ANYWAY, after replacing the BB, truing the back wheel and whilst replacing the front pads I noticed a very suspect crack in the paint where the the fork meets the crown. I scraped away the paint and gave the area a clean but I can't see anything that I can say for certain is a crack. There's a tiny line that could well be but one minute I think I can see it and the next I can't.
Basically I'm 50/50 as to whether they're cracked, I don't have enough evidence to get a return from the seller on eBay but I can't say for certain whether the bike is safe to ride.
My current thinking is to give the bike to the person and tell them to keep an eye on it in the hope that it will become more obvious before anything catastrophically fails...
WHAT DO? - The forks are aluminium