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Piece of shit Neon/Because forks


Skorp

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I hate bad forks. Broke my Neon curved fork some months ago. Luckily i noticed when trackstanding.

This time i was not so lucky. Bunny over a small ledge and flat landing. No big deal at all.

The Because fork broke, and i had no chance to dampen the fall. My face took it :)

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I have Trialtech forks now. Should i trust them? :P

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I'm mostly riding with brakes, but this time i was showing trials to a friend so he borrowed my trialsbike with brakes.

I have trialtechs on my bike with brakes, have there been any breakage of these?

I have been riding trials for 10 years now, and have broken two forks in that time. Have mostly used Echo Urbans which have been bulletproof.

EDIT: Yep, one tooth and chipped another! Estimated cost by my dentist: 500gbp. 3 stiches in my forehead and 4 stisches in my upperlip.

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Shotblasted frame :)

Thanks everyone, be cautious with these forks..

Do you know what media was used to blast the frame? There's a good possibility that it was this that has caused the failure of your forks. The fracture is a perfect fatigue failure which has propagated from an initiation point, a stress raiser, possibly caused by some overzealous removal of paint from around the welds/crown of your forks. Although shot blasting is primarily used as a way to increase the fatigue life of a component, if not done properly or with the correct media for the material, it has quite a large detrimental effect on the overall fatigue life.

You can see in the picture that they have been cracked for a while before they finally gave up. The crack probably started not long after the frame was blasted.

I feel your pain though! Not nice!

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Do you know what media was used to blast the frame? There's a good possibility that it was this that has caused the failure of your forks. The fracture is a perfect fatigue failure which has propagated from an initiation point, a stress raiser, possibly caused by some overzealous removal of paint from around the welds/crown of your forks. Although shot blasting is primarily used as a way to increase the fatigue life of a component, if not done properly or with the correct media for the material, it has quite a large detrimental effect on the overall fatigue life.

You can see in the picture that they have been cracked for a while before they finally gave up. The crack probably started not long after the frame was blasted.

I feel your pain though! Not nice!

Hard to tell, but looks like the crack was 'hidden' from any blasting by the fork legs? The steerer is set into a bit of a socket, and cracked at the base of that. If that makes any sense.

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They might not be the best forks but that's all the more reason not to make them any weaker and more likely to fail!

I broke a Neon fork autumn2013. This fork was not blasted :)

EDIT: the fork that broke was shotblasted with sand.

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looks like it cracked below the headset crown while usually I would expect the steerer to crack above.

That Tensile Ace headset comes with non-split crown. Any defects on the steerer tube from removing the crown using a screwdriver or similar in order to glassblast the fork?

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