It isn’t much of a deterrent really.
‘I promise I wont do it again officer, I didn know I was doin’ nofink wrong’.
‘Well on your way you little scallywag’.
sigh.
Anyway, in answer to your question southernsteel, no you can’t get the RC40s any more and apparently the DT Swiss replacement are not an equivalent due to being a ‘different class of fork’. I should be getting a pair of Fox TALAS 140s this week, just in time for the weather to change. It will be the first time, in the 20 years I have been riding, that I own a pair of non Pace suspension forks weirdly.