True, vivalo was pulled from the njs, the accident in question involved a rider running into a fallen rider resulting in forks breaking. The ban was considered unreasonable by many. Yes, live wire, your bike forks sound like they are sturdy, I have ridden mtb bikes with rigid forks of 4 foot drops with little worries, but they were for mtb and not built specifically for racing around a smooth track. That said, I was preety surpirised at how smoothly the forks came apart. Anyways, thanks for the help, will have a go at silver blazing em together...using a jig of course.