Thought I'd chuck this in here rather than one of the bear pits

[Demannu]

Sorry for the DM link.
Doctor's bike snaps in half, sueing manufacturer and vendor.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -firm.html

[MingtheMerciless]

Plenty of people like their bikes and frames but after speaking to someone who'd had the headstock separate from the rest of the frame whilst riding on Dartmoor its a No from me.

[weeksy]

It's hard to argue with his claim really. The bike and forks shouldn't have failed on the rising he was doing. It's not really planetx at fault but whoever made the forks. But as a retailer, the buck stops with them guys.

I've owned one of theirs, perfectly decent hardtail

[weeksy]

It's way way less of a common thing than you'd think. Masses and masses of bikes are thrown down, over, up and around things and none (mostly) ever break. Something clearly has gone wrong here in terms of finish quality... Simple as that really.

[JamJar]

That's the problem with carbon, when it fails it just snaps so you go from being upright to on the deck with no warning. My road bike had carbon bars and I tried to bunny hop up a kerb and the snapped in half and I hit the ground really hard. Alloy bards would have bent rather than snap.

[Beancounter]

Sounds very similar to this incident:

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/gian ... roken-back

"Korn claimed that the accident occurred because of a manufacturing fault with the joint between the alloy steerer tube and the bike’s carbon fork."

[Beancounter]

I'm not sure I'll ever need anything other than good old steel tubing on my bicycles, it's all very well chasing weight savings but at what cost?

I've got a carbon full sus eMTB. even if I could, I don't think I'd feel comfortable on anything more than a modest drop/landing. In fairness, I'm a chunky bloke so the frame has a lot to put up with.

[Taff]

I'm not sure I'll ever need anything other than good old steel tubing on my bicycles, it's all very well chasing weight savings but at what cost?

I've got a carbon full sus eMTB. even if I could, I don't think I'd feel comfortable on anything more than a modest drop/landing. In fairness, I'm a chunky bloke so the frame has a lot to put up with.

A mate of mine rides a full carbon nukeproof, is getting on for 100kg and rides it really really hard compared to how I ride including quite a bit of time at BPW, and hasn't had an issue with the frame.
He was mightily pissed off a couple of months ago when a rock flipped up and took a chunk of paint out of his seat stay.

[weeksy]

My lad has raced carbon DH bikes for 2+ years and hit stuff we'd never even dream of.... Admittedly he's light-weight, but i wouldn't worry.

My Trek Fuel is full carbon and it bothers me 0%

[JamJar]

Do MTB's have carbon forks and steerers?

[Pirahna]

My road bike is 20 year old Scott CR1, it still rides like new.

[weeksy]

Do MTB's have carbon forks and steerers?

Sometimes, but it's not a full on MTB then for me

[Cousin Jack]

A lot to be said for old-school Reynolds 531.