You are reading a single comment by @Smallfurry and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@Smallfurry
What you are describing there^ is what happened to the steel forks on my beater, many moons ago. Slight crash, thought they were fine (little bit of bending). Bigger crash, and both fork legs parted company with the crown.
I'f your ignorant enough not to replaced crashed carbon forks. I doubt you'll the type to discover hair thin cracks in alu, or internal rust in steel.
Unless you're talking about a very specific person, that is not quite careful enough to replace crashed carbon, but just careful enough to check for cracks. That has a very specific crash that would internally damage carbon, but not metal. Followed by another to make it fail.
Carbon is the best material for most riding types. Replacement cost is the only reason I can see not to use it, and that is getting cheaper all the time.