Early Trek Carbon Fork Question

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Great. I think it is important to dis-mystify and just have a sense of being level headed what we are dealing with.

@Guinessisgoodforyou I know went through this with some early "death forks" and got nitty gritty. did his homework, and ended up with an astounding build which should be sound as houses from now for forever in principal. I'll leave him to tell the story and show.

Stephen Roach reported and descended with a cracked 753 steel fork at a race, and again it confirms one thing and one thing only - you need to be a bit weird to be deluded that these uber lightweight parts could live well well well beyond there initial guarantee period.

Steel I think is safe, because if it fails, it's slow and you can still control the bike in a "get me home" scenario.

It's here.

1974 Viscount Supabike build thread sort of..

My associates @grantoury and @Woz "suggested" I do a build thread for this bike @Imlach just watched to see what happened. I like the underdog. I like Carrera's and Al Carter's, moving on. I didn't need another bike, let alone two of the f***ing things. Sometimes they just choose you. I saw...

www.retrobike.co.uk

 

[Canuckbiker]

Thanks for sharing @Guinessisgoodforyou

Was a great read, a lovely bike and those black DA components!

I need to spend more time on the road bike section

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Thanks for sharing @Guinessisgoodforyou

Was a great read, a lovely bike and those black DA components!

I need to spend more time on the road bike section

Some lovely all over the site