Cracks of concern? (Merlin Gravel bike)

I think it’s highly unlikely there is an issue with a batch of these forks. They will have sold lots of them and if there was an issue they’d know about it. Merlin arent stupid enough to have a product out there that is potentially lethal. If someone died and it was proven they knew about a fault, and hadn’t issued a recall, they’d most likely be up on criminal charges

More than likely the op just got a duff one..

Update… after escalating to Merlin they agreed to send me some new forks.

Read: Someone at Merlin saw this thread and thought make it go away.

 Merlin arent stupid enough to have a product out there that is potentially lethal. If someone died and it was proven they knew about a fault, and hadn’t issued a recall, they’d most likely be up on criminal charges

More than likely the op just got a duff one..

To be really clear I’m not posting RE Merlin here, only the scenario in general –

How does the brand know that fork was a duff one, Vs an indicator of a duff process affecting a number of forks? It’s hard to be sure and that’s why so many batches of carbon products get recalled.