Worried about Easton Carbon Forks

kellys_heroes
kellys_heroes Posts: 88
edited November 2007 in Workshop
Hi decided to treat myself to a litespeed Titanium frame after riding countless Colnago`s (i know what a traitor eh) the frame came with Easton Carbon forks with a Carbon Steerer.however been to my local shop and he`s shown me 2 broken sets of forks,one broke at the dropout and one broke just above. the shop where i bought the frame told me the forks would be fine ? as makers dont want to be seen as selling a shoddy product but after seeing these 2 forks i have my doubts....not sure about the Carbon Steerer also.....wish i had kept my Colnago Strait chrome forks now...anyone else had problems with easton ??? cheers

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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Easton products have a good reputation and do offer a lifetime warranty - mind you, not much use when you need a new set of teeth? Was the failure related to a particular model of Easton fork, or more than one - if the first - then avoid that fork - if the latter - try and get them to fit a different make of fork. BTW, if you'd stuck with Colnago, the Star is probably the best handling fork going.
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • acorn_user
    acorn_user Posts: 1,137
    I'd feel confident in an Easton product. A friend just did Iron Cross with an Easton ec70x. Iron cross is an epic cyclocross race, so if it can deal with that, a good Easton fork should be able to handle the road. There are also plenty of carbon forks in use, and breakages are uncommon.
  • magliaceleste
    magliaceleste Posts: 748
    I've been using Easton EC90 SLX forks for over a year on my main road bike without any problems at all. 260 grams of goodness!

    The only thing I would say that is very poor is the stupid beartrap external headset adjuster. It constantly works loose. I would replace it with an expanding wedge solution for carbon steerers (FSA make them) which acts just like a star nut.
  • kellys_heroes
    kellys_heroes Posts: 88
    thanks to all........using the EC90 model. was just a bit concerned its been the same model..i know that no product is totally 100% reliable..but when you see 2 in the space of a few months.you start to get the rosary beeds out descending at 40mph and hope your not going to be lying in the road :D
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    if you have concerns about easton fork safety why would you even think
    about using them???

    Dennis Noward
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Like Magliaceleset, I have the EC90 SLX forks, they're fine. And again, don't use the "beartrap" mechanism if it's included, I think they've scrapped it now anyway.

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