My biggest fear in the world of BMX is breaking my forks when I land a trick.  The ugliest crashes I have ever seen were caused by broken forks.  One of these crashes put a rider I know in the hospital for nearly three months of plastic surgery on his face.  When I'm searching for a fork, my main requirement is that it be extremely strong. I want to know that all the stress points: the droputs, the weld between the steerer tube and crown, the steerer tube itself and the star nut as as bombproof as they possibly can be.  I'll never understand anyone who searches for and runs a a set of  'light forks' , to me that is insane.

Before buying the Fit Forks, I had never personally owned anything made by Fit, but it's a really popular brand among the NYC street crowd, and I had never seen anyone really trash any of there parts.  In addition I knew that S+M builds the Fit Forks in house, so I assumed the build quality would be similar to the Pitchforks, which are excellent.  At the time I paid $115 for them, in black at a local shop in Brooklyn.  That was 14 months ago and I decided yesterday to put the Series I out to pasture, and get a new set. In the last 14 months I've gone through just about every single part, and some parts, like handlebars 5 times.

This is a strong testament to just how strong these forks really are.  They have recived a horrendous beating via street riding and constant bashing into ledges. I can say they have taken at least 200 or 300 missed grinds where I either slipped off the object through bad balance or come up short pounding the fork.  I run, big, Animal front pegs on a very strong G-sport axle, so the dropouts really got w workout overa  long period of time, and received quite a bit of load with the axle and pegs working together as a giant lever.  I noticed the dropouts starting to bend slightly at about 7 months, which is quite a considerable period of time.  Suprising the the paint lasted for a while, even when it was scraped by bricks and concrete.  Here's a shot from above showing the bent right dropout.

Once the droput bent, I had to tighten the axle bolt down way too much on that side, and this just further bent the dropout, but this happened slowly over a period of   months, and even as the fork leg began to twist in, it was still completely rideable.  This is the one design flaw with the Fit Series one fork.  If you are running a larger, 1/2" peg, the peg will not sit perfectly flush with the dropout.  I filed down my peg a bit, an it sits about 90% flush.  I think that if the dropouts were angled down slightly,  you could get the peg to sit totally flush, it would have taken even longer for the dropout to begin bending.

This was the only problem I ecnountered, and as far as I see it, it is expected wear and tear, until about a month ago.  I was doing a tyretap at the top fo a cement pyramid, and bailed, and I dropped my bike straight to ground to get it out of the way.  I noticed the bars had moved, and top bearing and race were popping out of the top headset cup. Not good.  After taking it all apart. amd replacing the bearing, I noticed the steerer tube was bent.  It was bent prett bad, but I managed to squeeze it back in by rigging an extremely odd headset race shim with a filed down spacer (don't even ask...), and I was able to ride.  When I had the forks out I saw that the welds on the insode of the steerer tube were starting to crack.  Here's a shot of the underside, with the welds breaking.

And Here's one to see the general wear and tear on the fork.  Not bad for 14 months.

One of the forks still on the bike with abent steerer tube...

I rode the forks a few more times, but every time I rode I had a sketchy feeling in my gut that any landing could be swan song for these troopers and my worst nightmare wouuld com true as I watched my front wheel, with peg still attached roll down Broadway as I fell under a bus.  Retirement was the only option, which led me to write this review.  The Fir Series one forks are amazing.  They are simple and strong, which is all a fork should be.  The only caveat is the peg clearance issue, but it's fixable with a grinding wheel in about 5 minutes (remember grind the peg not the fork...).  They weigh 51.7 ounces. which is actually fairly light, but weight doesn't really matter with a fork anyway.  I would definetly say these forks will do you justice, and I', going to buy another pair tommorow.