Out of curiosity, w...
 

[Closed] Out of curiosity, when a headtube fails...

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How does it[b] typically[/b] happen - from a frontal impact ie extension at the top of the headtube/compression at bottom, or from, say, casing a jump causing extension at the bottom of the headtube/compression at the top?

I'd always assumed it was the latter, but on the angleset thread there seems an assumption that it's the former.


 
Posted : 08/02/2011 1:27 pm
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Ive snapped a headtube off casing a 20 foot double. I came to still holding on the the bars, even though the rest of the bike was quite a way away.

To be fair, the previous day I had hit a gate that "jumped out" at me on a descent in the peak quite hard.


 
Posted : 08/02/2011 1:34 pm