Carbon forks

holding on to the flake!!
im only doing this for special occations:haaaaaaaaa!

hippy Alu isn't much better than carbon if at all.. it fails quickly. I weigh 95kg/200lbs (all muscle, contrary to 31trum's opinion) and I've crashed carbon forks before and they've held up.
I track stand all the time on my road bikes (saves my cleats). No problems so far. I did swap out the full-carbon fork I had.. I'm not keen on clamping carbon tubes.
Creaking could be anything - like nimbhus's bike - we thought it was headset or stem but it turned out to be the quick-release not being seated properly. Check everything before you assume it's the fork.

to be honest its all about the way you fall/get hit.. i got taken out by a van that didnt indicate and i completely snapped my carbon forks and i only weigh 57kg..

hippy Did you take the bars out of the stem, clean and refit? Also, take the stem off the fork steerer, clean and refit?
If you are rocking the bike back and forwards on the brakes, check that the brakes are not loose through the fork.
Try grabbing opp. sides of your front wheel and twisting to make sure it's not spokes.
Check forks for anything odd.
Replace.
Kinda in that order.

thanks again. it was the stem that was clamped too tight to the steer tube,. i do however have a small nick on the top of the fork which i just noticed, nothing big but should i be worried? it came from when i fell and the brake moved back to hit it.

"to be honest its all about the way you fall/get hit.. i got taken out by a van that didnt indicate and i completely snapped my carbon forks and i only weigh 57kg.."

I'm just saying that I've put 'em down often enough to trust them. Carbon steerer tubes - not so.

hippy Alu isn't much better than carbon if at all.. it fails quickly. I weigh 95kg/200lbs (all muscle, contrary to 31trum's opinion) and I've crashed carbon forks before and they've held up.
I track stand all the time on my road bikes (saves my cleats). No problems so far. I did swap out the full-carbon fork I had.. I'm not keen on clamping carbon tubes.
Creaking could be anything - like nimbhus's bike - we thought it was headset or stem but it turned out to be the quick-release not being seated properly. Check everything before you assume it's the fork.

hahahaha :)