>>1933949>I bought a 10 year old used road bike with a carbon fork, it's looks to be in decent condition with only minor paint damage.>According to /n/ it's gonna break soon and I'm gonna die, is this true?A new fork is prohibitively expensive unless it's a really nice frame.
It's almost never worth buying a bike that needs a new fork unless you have a decent used one to replace it with, which itself usually has to be stolen from another nice frame which you could just use instead, or is taken from a crash damaged frame and is sketchy.
So by that logic, no, you shouldn't replace the fork. Either that or you shouldn't have bought the bike.
I think slightly sketchy old carbon is ok though.
10 years isn't that old.
As mentioned superficial damage is almost inevitable and not important.
I suggest you fully remove the fork to service the headset though, and closely inspect the steerer tube and the fork crown. Don't just gauge the condition of the blades and fork ends.
Other warning signs would be scuffed hoods, bent bars, or a mismatched front wheel. These things all imply a crash. I don't know if i would like to ride a -crashed- carbon fork.
If you do get a new one then chink carbon is its own beast and i would look at a reynolds, ritchey, or columbus fork. These are probably going to cost more than you paid for the entire bike.
