{"id":145877,"date":"2025-09-15T14:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145877\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:56:04","slug":"dealing-with-a-carbon-bike-after-a-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145877\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing With A Carbon Bike After A Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclists love bikes. I cannot count the number of times in my legal practice that I have been consulted by cyclists who seem more worried about their bikes than their own health following a crash. It is as if the bike is an injured appendage requiring urgent attention.<\/p>\n<p>Assessing the post-crash \u201chealth\u201d of a bike can be challenging. Steel, aluminum and titanium bikes are less problematic \u201cpatients.\u201d These bicycles tend to be quite robust. A good visual inspection and some measurements can provide a reliable determination of a bike\u2019s integrity. Carbon-fibre bikes, however, are a different story . . .<\/p>\n<p>This article is for Canadian Cycling Magazine members only. Join the club today for exclusive access to in-depth stories, tips and reviews, as well as access to a community of riders, just like you!<\/p>\n<p>Already a member?<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sign-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in now &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cyclists love bikes. I cannot count the number of times in my legal practice that I have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82,78003],"class_list":["post-145877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-volume-16-issue-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}