It can. It happened to me. Stick followed the tire into the fender. Fender collapsed into fork crown. Immediate endo. Landed on head.
Helmets definitely help once in a while. Both blades deformed. Top and down tube deformed. Major pain in rear. Do not ride fenders without release engineering. It's expensive. And no.... I was not going fast. Will On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:36:37 PM UTC-5, rw1911 wrote: > > I may be naive, but just can't see how a *stick* could do such damage. I > haven't had the displeasure, but imagine it going something like... stick > gets sucked, front wheel locks, rapid deceleration, rider over bars and the > bike probably leaves the ground relieving the force on the fork. Perhaps > the extensive fork damage is the result of a post-stick, high speed impact? > > http://rivbike.tumblr.com/ > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
