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@Dammit
Lost nothing, other than a clean fork leg, gained silence and power.
It's a kludge, for sure, but it transformed the BB7/SRAM lever combination from a frustrating pain in the arse that did not work properly, to a system that I really like (and ride every day).
Previously if you set the pads far enough out not to drag on the rim the brake lever would hit the bars before pulling the arm on the caliper far enough to clamp down on the disc.
So you had to have pads that dragged, in order to be able to stop.