German A Kilo fork kit

If you have the money..

Thor USA is offering the German A Kilo fork kit for Dahon Jetstream P8 owners who wanted an upgrade.
Way it seems, the Jetstream P8 does have a disk brake mount on its rear chainstay and you can easily upgrade it. 
The only thing left to do, is to get a new hub to fix the disk brake rotor for the rear wheel.

The retail price is USD$666.00 (RM2,167.50) excluding freight charges.
I would say that its a real bargain considering the fact that German A does not sell their 20" Kilo suspension fork.
And the retail price alone is 1,000 Euros.
The only bicycle maker offering the Kilo for as an option is Bernd bicycles. Their folding bikes are customizable to include a front suspension. 

A Questionable Fork...

Leave it to the Chinese...
A guy posted on this Facebook, pictures of his spanking-new German A Kilo fork.
Now, as far as I know, the Kilo front suspension is one of the most sophisticated design ever to hit the shelves.
It looks like a jet fighter's landing strut.
But when I took a closer look at the fork, seems that the mounting is welded rather than machined from a single billet of aluminium.
What raised the alarm bells was the base of the trapezoid's multi-lined system. 
I compared this to the German A fork I knew and the differences were stark..

The China-made fork, note the welding on the base of the trapezoid multi-link

The real McCoy...

Someone's been really hardworking...
To the untrained eye, the German A Kilo fork looked identical.
What's missing: are the clean lines and seamless base on the multilink.
I guess that what you pay is what you get and in the case of the "China A Kilo" fork, you might want to think twice before getting hurt if the suspension fails...