I agree completely - that's part of the 'well mostly' I was referring to - I did want that back in 01 when I bought it for my Proflex - HUGE improvement over what I had and it fit the budget at the time... I will say that I have had absolutely ZERO problems with that fork (just jinxed myself) and it works pretty well - but a TALAS or FLOAT would be sweet...when I kill the current one, that's what will replace it...It ain't broke, so I'm not going to fix it - yet.