Yes indeed.

I figured it was only a matter of WHEN and not IF Reynolds would discontinue at least the tandem models after Santana second-sourced / house-branded its premium grade carbon fork offering and dropped the Reynolds fork as the OE spec on it's Team / Exotic level tandems. I suspect Advanced Composites/Wound-Up and True Temper / Alpha Q have only been able to hang in there with their tandem forks because they still have companies like Co-Motion and most of the boutique builders (Seven, Calfee, Litespeed, etc.) spec'ing them.

IMHO, Reynolds put all its eggs in one basket with Santana and their 55mm rake spec when they made their molds. Unfortunately, all of the other builders were using 45mm or 44mm, making the Reynolds Ouzo Pro far less desireable to the folks looking for the more lively handling bikes and that's where Wound-Up & Alpha Q had already invested their capital. Heck, even Burley ended up souring their carbon forks from True Temper, albeit for a somewhat 'special' CX model with 48mm of rake.

Getting back to the Reynolds forks, my original request to Calfee was to have him tweak the head tube geometry to accommodate the 55mm Reynolds Ouzo Pro vs. the Alpha Q as I thought the larger size of the Reynolds fork crown and upper legs not only looked like a better 'fit' with the Calfee's oversized frame construction, but were also notably more rigid. Craig did not embrace my proposal with any perceptable enthusiasm and strongly suggested we stick with the same Alpha Q X2 we'd been using without issue on our other tandems.