Indeed that's far from acceptable. I'm working on a solution, so upgrading this fork to an acceptable standard is possible, without loosing too much of the weight advantage it originally has.
Awesome! Yea mine is at 18.03 currently. But that is with a big heavy maxxis creepy crawler on the rear. Going to be getting a try-all sticky or quite possibly the Monty pro race. Should drop it well beneath 18 .