Uh, oh! I'm busted. But I wouldn't call it speculation. More like just repeating "common knowledge" as learned by reading it many times on the 41 to someone without benefit of that information. If you disagree with it, I can't properly argue with you. I'll step back from this one after mentioning, however, that IMO carbon fiber forks beat the other fork materials I HAVE compared it to, steel and aluminum, on bikes made of those materials. And riding my two Ti bikes with carbon fiber forks has never given me reason to believe otherwise for that combination. I am missing one data point though, and I readily admit it.