Broken tandem forks

Friends with a thorn adventure had their forks fail on them at the
steerer/crown. These are the funny thorn two-plate ones.

Fortunately the failure mode was the steerer tube cracking/becoming detached
from the bottom plate, giving a horrible wobble but no actual crash.

Funnily enough they don't trust adventure forks any more, but will give the
stronger discovery ones a go. I reckon this is a fair replacement - I
wouldn't expect any rigid forks on a touring bike to fail without a crash,
since they are such a safety critical item.

Mr Thorn has offered the discovery forks as a replacement for 50 quid
extra - I think he should give them for free.

So, what think the general public?

cheers,
clive

(x-post to tandem@hobbes)