Lifetime of Carbon Forks?

Posted on Mon 1st, October 2012

• #1

combatwombat

Whats the life time of Carbon forks?

I have an old Giant OCR frame with flat bladed aero carbon forks.
It must be > 8 years old and I've ridden it a lot.

Do they have a shelf life?

I recon that when they go - it'll be sudden....
• #2

Tenderloin

Nah.

Carbon failure is never catostrophic.
• #3

hippy

People are still riding around on Giant Cadex frames from 8000 years ago.
• #4

colm

if it's only been owned by you and you never crashed it should be fine. if its expensive to replace some people get them x-rayed to 100% sure everything is fine

carbon fibre tech has moved on a lot in the past 8 years, just like Reynolds steel technology improved over time, steel failure is less catastrophic tho
• #5

Mr_Bump

I regualrly use a Vitus GTI with Time carbon composite forks that were constructed in the early 90s. Solid as a rock.

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