Okay, I’m getting around to it. Got some lung crud going on, so I need to go to bed early. Manana for sure.
If you look closely, this photo pretty much sums it up.
Steve Tilford
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Okay, I’m getting around to it. Got some lung crud going on, so I need to go to bed early. Manana for sure.
If you look closely, this photo pretty much sums it up.
May want to tighten up that stem.
gotta love those new fangled carbon steer tubes.
Yeah, your bike could use a bit of fixing up.5
dang, twice in just a few months.
Did Kim West break your stem?!
I though Trek fixed the steerer tube problems after Hincapie’s Paris Roubaix fiasco?
How come you don’t have any road rash?
You are hanging out with clowns on the Snake?
Why did they stop making carbon forks with aluminum steerer tubes? Well worth the extra couple of ounces.
“I don’t break steerer tubes often, but when I do I drink with the clowns on the snake!”
Hincapie was riding an aluminum steerer. Super scary, glad you are alright.
Dude, you need to talk to your boy Kent about a road bike. My LBS has a Trek graveyard that slays me. I have been told that one in eight racers cash in on a frame replacement on those puppies. How many Moots/Eriksens have failed you in the last 20 years? A big zero?
The fork here was apparently the cause, not the result of a crash. However, an interesting and related topic, once Mr. Tilford has time to rest/reflect/recover, might be on how “crash-able” should a bike be made, anyway? Each discipline has its own peculiarities, such a DH, Cycle Speedway, pursuit, and road racing. My own prejudices lean to more mass, with worries about shipping, survivability in a crash, long life, etc. But then why should an athlete lug more weight around just to make the mechanic happy?
Steve, no need to write a story; that picture is worth a thousand words.