I have had two experiences that reinforce my unwillingness to ride carbon fiber. 1) I built fiberglass racing sailboats as one of the hands on laminators. I know how critical workmanship is and how important it is that eyes and/or hands actually see/feel all of the laminate, especially in places where life and death are at stake. 2) I know first hand the potential consequences of a fork failure.

To risk 2) again because of a laminate that has never seen human either eyes or hands. Nah, I'll pass. Most CF forks and frames are made inside enclosed female molds. Human hands and eyes have access to the lamininate as it is laid into the opened mold halves (and the laminate is just floppy pieced of carbon fiber imbued with resin, sorta like a burlap fabric coated with molasses and allowed to dry for a few days) but once the mold is closed, that laminate is never seen again. Everybody trusts that the resin set up as it should, that nothing moved, the the vacuum bag pressing the laminate against the mold did its job including the quality control officer.

I have had 2 steel forks fail on me but both gave me warning and I removed and replaced them before the resulting crash.

Ben