Fork Failure

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From http://velonerds.com as of 2007/06/26:   

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Here's Erik after a spectacular crash. There we were minding our own business traveling down a trail that had a few jumps on it and suddenly BOTH dropouts on his Fox fork snap off and he slams in to the ground. A 3rd Degree ac separation of his shoulder and a pretty long hike out followed.

Erik was really brave the whole time and didn't cry. He suspects his fork mount bike rack was what weakened the fork. He'd had trouble with the bikes coming loose and so had been making sure it was extra tight and wiggling it once it was in to make sure it was firm. Both dropouts sheared off at the same point and the wheel came out so viciously that it bent the disk at 90° in the caliper.

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