Read my first post in this thread: I am trying to liberate a XO fork for my own use, so I was jokingly suggesting you swap yours out so I could grab it.
But to try to answer your question, I would think that a fairly robust carbon fork would be fine, but completely unnecessary for your purposes.
jim
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