Lawyers tabs - OSHA approved stress concentrators.

My Lambert had even an even more egregious stress starter built into the fork crown, a far worse place. I wondered if that was how the joined the fork and steerer but thought that any sop****re engineering student knew full well that would be suicidal. Well, Lambert did it and it nearly killed me. They also designed that key point to be completely hidden from inspection short of X-raying. (It took 4 years from new to break. Your bike presumably served you and others far better.)

Ben