Originally Posted by jitteringjr

Have you at least thought about how you could improve the longevity of your gear or are you satisfied with destroying it at your current rate with money to spare in the cycling budget?

Originally Posted by rekmeyata

i've never done CX stuff which like MTB'ing I'm sure beats up stuff (I use to MTB ride off road aggressively but not race) but I did use road race on that Suntour Superbe stuff that has the 160k miles, and it still works just fine.

I haven't road any Chinese generic forks nor will I ever, I did have a friend that had one and it broke on him, there has been several instances at my LBS, which contradicts what you said, no surprise there, according to my mechanic, of them having to repair bikes that had broken generic forks that they replaced with name brand forks, even broken generic frames that they had to sell them a new frame, and there has been people on various forums like this one that have had the same issues. Regardless if you accept that or not, the question becomes would you accept paying for something because it's cheaper than main line stuff knowing very little about how it was made, or the quality control, or the quality itself, with NO warranty whatsoever? Even if the Chinese company that made your CF product says sure they'll warranty it just send it back you'll have to pay about $200 for shipping, so $200 for shipping plus the cost of the fork could have bought you a Enve 2.0! Then you have to trust the company that they'll fix it and send it back. I assume you would prefer to save money on a generic no name not for import into America and buy a helmet with those same conditions?

You do what you want, of course you will anyways but that's fine, I personally would never buy something new with that sort of risks that I mentioned above, again, I said me personally.