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Well all I can say is that I have NEVER EVER had to grapple with the handle bars on my disc forks under hard braking due to the bars trying to twist out from my grip even when they were loaded with panniers. I think there is a lot of scare mongering going on here. Basically use common sense and a robust fork and you will be fine. Using a skinny fork something like was fitted to a 1970s Peugeot racer with a disc mount attached would be asking for trouble as there would be far too much flex. IMHO the issue is not twisting by having only one disc brake on one arm of the fork but having a fork with a strong enough crown / head tube as with a disc brake it is possible to stop so much more quickly than rim brakes. It is period. So Luddites and trolls don't start another pointless argument that rim brakes are on a par with disc brakes. They are not. Disc brakes are far more powerful. Period.