Carbon fork: safe to ride?

I'm building up a beater for one of my friends. Aluminium frame with carbon forks that have the following 'problem'. Is this safe to ride? The cracks open up a little bit when pressure is applied on the fork blades, but they still feel quite good. I removed the paint on the metal part of the fork with a dremel tool...

Ride it or scrap it?

Scrap

i have next to no knowledge when it comes to carbon and stuff but i would definitely +1 what Chak said. you'll save money in the long run as well because dentists are really expensive.

Surely that depends on how much he likes the friend...

bin time

Are you fucking joking?

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not you, OP

pretty sure these are old bianchi forks, ive had a set which did the same, cracks around the join. i dont think it would fold on you unless you rode them really hard.

even so - if theres any doubt with forks it really is best to cut your losses and bin them or make a bedside lamp or something from them. theyre not worth much more than £20 anyways.

4 more years, 4 more years!

Fubared

So, you are descending at speed, hit a pothole or wotnot and the next thing you see are angels with harps or imps with forks...

... you've been turned into a sausage.

Ok, have no experience at all with carbon forks, but this is what I was expecting. So scrap, and looking for another fork!

thinking about it, i would still ride them to be honest, looking at how theyre constructed and the thickness of that coat filler, it's no surprise the filler cracked. i dont personally think they would give that easily and its only the filler thats looking bad, which isnt a structural part. if youre going to scrap them i would be curious to see how easily they would snap, easy to find out too, just throw it at a wall forks first or drop it etc.

definitely throw them out if youre in doubt though

I think some of those forks with the alloy crowns used to fail at the join, didn't they? Not from experience - just hearsay.

New forks are cheaper than new teeth!

The cheap way of converting your road bike into a Cannondale Lefty