Nope . Those are steel . Quite impressive . I find myself wondering how the fork survived without getting bent . I did something similar , although not nearly as bad , to a mid 70 s motobecane . During a crash I bent the top tube and downtube , right near the head tube . In addition the fork was bent back about 2 . The damage to the fork was much more severe than the damage to the frame . Somehow for the bike above , it is the opposite . <| sep |> That was in olden times . Now it ' s about the VAPE NAYSH . <| sep |> Social Justice ? Fascists did it first . They make you an enemy of the people , so the people don ' t care when they flog you in public as an example to others . Then again , SJWs do tend to lift things straight from the Fascist playbook .