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  • 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.

    If I bent my forks, I'd replace them, and I reckon most other people would too, or at least accept that they were damaged. Also, you state that the second crash was bigger, so you don't even know if the prior crash weakened the fork or not. And they were forks on your 'beater' - old? second hand? rusted? We're comparing to brand new, necessarily expensive carbon forks here....

    If the first accident happened with a carbon fork but didn't cause visibile damage I reckon most people would carry on riding them, assuming they were fine, and it may not take a **bigger **crash to snap them - they could be significantly weakened so that a pothole or some lump in the road could snap them. It's that unpredictabilty which worries me.

    The distinction is that the carbon fork wouldn't give any notice before it snaps. You had ample warning with steel and chose to ignore it.

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