Has anybody ever seen a failure like this on an early F650GS or Dakar?
That was on the Alaska Highway near Destruction Bay on the way back from a tour of Alaska. Forks fractured at 85mph, compound arm fracture, tortuous medevac back to Seattle for emergency surgery. Lucky it happened in the wilderness and not in heavy freeway traffic, though.
More here.
Crash in Destruction Bay, YT - ADVrider
I figure if anybody is going to have seen or heard of anything like that, it will be people going RTW on the bikes.
BMW uprated the design of the forks sometime around the end of 2002 and early 2003 after small spate of these, apparently - the new forks are much beefier than the old ones in the area that failed above, so if you ride a bike with the beefier forks you don't have anythuing to be concerned about as far as I know.
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