mtb - corroded front fork

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I think maybe a question to Manitou is in order, pointing out that magnesium is maybe a mite fragile and should come with whopping huge warning labels in the North European market.

It's not a shop I like or use. Large sports chain. I'll check prices a bit and see if it's worth the effort to order a new fork somewhere else (thanks for the kind offer, Cat!). But I'm def taking the bike home to install the new fork myself rather than pay them to do so. I've given up on fixing the rear brake myself, but that goes instead to my favourite and very trusted lbs even if it means I have to wait some weeks because everybody else in town also has them as their favourite and trusted lbs and it's race season. I may have to pay a bit more, but head wrench will then tell me afterwards what he did and why, and they won't try to make me feel like a blithering idiot for having the temerity to ride a "lightweight bike meant for training, not commuting" in winter.

Oak: ah, but motorcycles have motors, just like cars! And cars, as we all know, are what you're meant to use out there!

Ok, I'm even pissing myself off here Time to go eat something and head home.

[lph]

Happy update! Head honcho of sports chain store in question has seen the photos, and agrees that the corrosion was really pretty bad. New solution - they have a fork or two knocking around with broken insides, so I can inherit the outers. Right colour too, so this is a great solution all round - I get a working fork, a broken part gets a new life. Perfect

[Cataboo]

Excellent. YOu should still send a note to manitou

[lph]

(I refrained from asking why they had multiple forks knocking around with broken insides... )