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The forks are indeed Minimal, not Tusk -- the choice mostly determined by 1" steerer.
I just Wiggled it after all, although I initially thought I'd go with something aluminum from e-bay, but as the winter went by there still were no reasonable/affordable options. In carbon section either.
Maybe the lack of stuff was aggravated by the fact that I live in Russia, to answer the other question, and prices for used forks on e-bay plus shipping were same or usually higher than what I paid to Wiggle in the end.
It is not that wicked, actually, but true, in the half of the city up on the hill you hardly ever get a flat section, it's either a perpetual few grad gradient or a steeper one or some really sharp climbs one can barely ride up. Of course, as seen in the photo, the descends to bridges is the pinnacle of that all. The other half of the city is quite flat, by the way, but not very popular being made up of residential areas and industrial clusters.
And by the by, why do people use "forks" in plural? Is there any particular etymology behind that?