I have the Soma Double Cross with the with the stock steel fork, and love the bike it is really a comfortable ride I hope your enjoy your new ride. My other bike is a Moto Fantom Cross with the stock carbon fiber fork, which I doubt is near quality fork of what you are looking at. But both bikes are my car, so they are constantly getting banged by the bike racks when locking up and the paint along the backside of the fork of the moto is all gone exposing the aluminum crown, I wonder how well a full carbon fiber fork would take to this constant scraping and chipping and scratching, luckily the moto only has carbon legs.