For those on the conspiracy team that don’t believe RCH team taking responsibility for the fork issues on Ken Roczen’s bike, this should help clear up what they’re talking about.

The wire you can see here, coming out of this left-side fork, isn’t normally there. This sensor was just recently added by the RCH group and is not placed there by KYB. There’s not normally a hole or insert area there for this type of data acquisition, so RCH had to modify the fork cap to add this in. To note, it’s only located on the left side fork as well.

After the first moto, this was fairly quick for the team to diagnose as they pumped the fork back up and discovered this leak. I, like most, initially thought it could be fork seal failure. But to see for myself, I chased the team back to the pits to watch the tear down process and I noticed neither lower fork leg was covered in oil, as you would normally see during a fork seal failure, especially when there’s air pressure pushing out and taking more oil than usual with it.

This is why you see the RCH team apologizing, as this wasn’t KYB or their component’s fault. For those that will argue how RCH wouldn’t throw a sponsor under-the-bus… RCH pays KYB for their services and components, not the other way around. If it was KYB’s fault, you would hear it. Ken Roczen started and won the second moto on a set of KYB PSF1 forks as well.

Source: The Part that Failed on Ken Roczen’s Forks