Reliability of the Breakout Plus?

[mattj]

Ok, my friends and my wife think I'm riding a ticking time bomb. My set-up is a Yeti AS-X frame and Manitou Sherman Breakout plus (onepointfive of course).

Does anyone know of breaking Shermans (or AS-Xs for that matter)? I don't care about their "bad" damping or the fact that the travel adjust mechanism stops working after a while. What I'm wondering about is if these forks are snapping the way the aluminum Marzocchi steeres used to or the way stanchions used to go on the early dual-crown forks.

Any experiences, stories?


-m

[The Unibiker]

My buddy cracked his crown (6" 2004 Sherman). We think it was a lemon, who knows...I emailed him link to this thread, maybe he'll elaborate.

[flattire]

Yeah my 2003 6" breakout crown developed a fatigue crack where the steer meets the crown. James at OGC commented that he'd never seen a failure mode like this and treated it as a material defect and warrantied a 1.5 (no pun intended) year old fork. So I gots a band new steer/station/crown assembly now.

Im 160 lbs and the fork was on a gemini, overall i dont punish the fork too hard except at whistler on clown shoes drop n stuff.

[sleeper72]

I've heard through the grapevine that during testing the failure mode on the Breakout Plus is that the stanchions and crown bend (under extreme forces of course) By contrast, in the same test the Slider triple crown stanchions snap where they meet the lower crown. Personally, I'd rather have a fork bend than break, although I'm quite sure I'll never encounter those kinds of forces anyway.
I've done a little research on the 1.5 headset standard (which was partly done to eliminate the need for a triple crown) as well and I have more faith in Manitou's engineers than random people who think a 7" single crown doesn't "look" strong enough.
I have a Breakout Plus on my Knolly, and am not at all worried about it. It's great to have an unlimited turning radius again!

[Tonestar]

I have been running a Sherman Breakout on a Yeti ASX for 2 years now, no problems with either frame or fork. I have used it for dirt jumping, Shore riding, Whistler, Woodlot even x-country rides, it's a super sweet set up.

No reason to worry, I have no idea what your friends are on about, both products are extremely well made. Yeti's reputation for building frames is second to none for quality and durability. Manitou Shermans are incredibly well built forks.

[Hack On Wheels]

i would trust one, i have tried a switch pro with one for a few rides and never once considered the possiblity of it being weaker than a dc, unless you screw up enough to break a slider or other dc, you will not break your breakout

[mattj]

pretty much what I thought. Thanks guys.


-m