Yea, I'm gonna swing it by the shop for the official opinion. I'm aware of the cartridge issue: I want to marry the fork to some shyte Chinese aluminum and need the loose-ball action to do so. It's that fat lip-of-a-shelf on the steel fork crown that suc*s, and the carbon crown I do not desire to damage.

I folded the Allez frame doing something wontonly thoughtless. The fork was just an innocent bystander.