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- From: frankh@sr.hp.com (Frank Hamlin)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Re: EMS Fork?
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:41:47 GMT
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- > 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, was
- > 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.
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- 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.
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- Frank Hamlin, Santa Rosa Systems, Hewlett Packard __@ __@
- 1400 Fountaingrove Pkwy, Santa Rosa, Calif _-\<,-\<,
- frankh@sr.hp.com (707) 577-2084 (*)/---/(*)
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