Thanks again. You've been a big help. Meant no offense with my little lecture joke. Had in mind all the responses I've read that go like this: "You don't need a carbon fork, you moron; take a couple of lbs of air outcher tires and you'll achieve 973% more shock absorbtion than any damn fork, you snivelling little poseur"
Yeah, ran into 1.5" steerer tubes; tapered 1.5" to 1 1/8" steerer tubes; integrated headsets...understood just enough to know that it wasn't what I needed. My steerer tube is 1/18" top to bottom; same for the kinesis. Standard headset on my bike and I assume --since all I see in the picture is a cylindrical tube sticking up from the crown-- the Kinesis is intended to be used with a standard headset too.
I'll just forget I heard the term "fork crown race"
and assume all will be ok.