Wasn't even riding it hard, I did hang off a bit and just felt the front go, lucky I was able to stand the bike back up right after, would've been embarrassing in the middle of that intersection.
This is true. Still bullshit that someone else's personal matters could screw this man out of a job. My friends tell me about all the illegal stupid shit they do all the time. I don't feel I need to tell my boss about it.
It's not hard. You need a box wrench that'll fit the bleeder, some hose that will fit the bleeder nipple and something to catch the fluid you flush. I'd shoot for a clear hose so you can see if air bubbles are there. Many many videos online that tell you what to do. Unless you have some kind of abs system it shouldn't be a big ordeal.
There are carbon lowers that are manufactured for the public. I have 3D printers at work that can interlace carbon with hard plastics or just straight up print the carbon composite stuff (I'm not the engineer, so I dont know what the technical term is for that material they showed me earlier this week) making it ridiculously strong. The piece they showed me was for milling equipment and things like HAAS machines to fasten items to it so they could be milled. (So its pretty strong.) It would be "strong enough" to do damage before it broke at the very least.