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- From: sjm3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (SALEM JON MAZZAWY)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Re: EMS Fork?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.192216.136836@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:22:16 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 19
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- In article <C1Gwxn.DGx@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>, frankh@sr.hp.com (Frank Hamlin) writ
- es:
- >
- >> Yes, I do have a general comment. I saw one of these forks break earlier
- >> this past year on a very smooth downhill. Let me stress that the road was
- >> very smooth. The thing shattered and in doing so destroyed its rider. He
- >> had to be taken away in an ambulence. Local frame builder, Peter Weigle, wa
- s
- >> there and said that he could not believe that happened. He went on to say
- >> that if one of his bikes every injured a person like that, he would stop
- >> building.
- >
- >Was this near Clearlake? I think it was the Ukiah Century where a rider
- >had a stick pop up and into the front spokes on his Kestrel. He immediately
- >went over the handlebars, and shattered his front forks. It's not clear
- >that the fork failure contributed to his injurys.
- >
- No, it was in Bolten, CT. No sticks, no nothing, just a pulverized rider.
- Salem
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