A friend of mine offered me his Scott Speedster Gravel 20 disc. I said I would take it home to do a few test rides and inspect it before I bought it.
It has a carbon fork, which upon closer inspection looked damaged to me, but I don't know anything about carbon bike components. I tried to match the damage it to pictures on the Internet but nothing i found looked similar.
What's your verdict?
by RegularProposal7006
9 Comments
Looks bad, but the sidebar speaks truth:
“”Is this cracked / safe to ride?” – If you have to ask, don’t ride it. We probably can’t tell from a picture just what condition your bike is in. Take it to your Local Bike Shop and ask them. If it’s carbon, a specialist repair shop may be required. They should have the equipment and expertise to inspect it properly.”
I personally wouldn’t even ride that bike down the driveway
That appears to be corrosion of an aluminum dropout end of the fork where it is bonded to the carbon leg.
Looks like bonding failure between the carbon and aluminium drop outs. Bin.
The fork can be replaced. Even upgraded, depending on what you want.
Probably just a little aluminum surface corrosion, bucking the paint off, but IDK crashing on your face is expensive.
Take the wheel off.. Flex it sideways with your fingers.. If you can feel any movement.. Or see paint crack more.. Then it’s dead.
You can replace the fork.. But buy it at a discount. If in doubt take it to a shop
It’s bad, RIP forks, but be thankful forks are replaceable.
Aluminium corrosion. You won’t know the full extent unless you remove the paint.
i would sand off the paint in the interested spots and see if there is damage in the material underneath.
if the material underneath is damaged, replace the fork. if there is not but nevertheless you don’t feel comfortable painting over it and use the fork, replace the fork. if you there is not and you feel comfortable painting over it and keep using the fork, do that.
as it is now, the only safe thing to do is to replace the fork