Originally Posted by
meditationride
tomato; the manufacture themselves placed it on a different model with a different part serial number.
From a consumer standpoint, the manufacturer differentiated the part and made the assertion. it is up to them to prove otherwise.
why should the consumer be left with mismatching esthetics at best and lower quality fork at worst?
I'm not sure what else you're expecting. You're going to get an aesthetically mismatched fork regardless, and you'd rather that it's from a current, but different, model (the Caledonia is the most direct replacement) and you're under the assumption that it'll be better even if it's not made for your frame?
Reading between the lines on their comment of the "not common" nature of the damage, I think that I'd take what I can get.