No insight from me either, though I must admit to wondering who was outbidding me on all the Resilion brakes on ebay!

I think I would just fill that hole in the fork crown with JBWeld or the like, or even Bondo; reshape with knife and riffler files, and paint. I don't suppose I could get it perfect, but as long as the new paint matches the existing paint I think it wouldn't be too hard to get it so the hack job isn't apparent any more.