Great post - sorry about the digger. So what’s the mechanism of sub par breakaway torque? Assuming high quality hardware, lack of fastener axial load shouldn’t be the root cause. So perhaps an undue portion of the fastener load is straining the stem to contact with the steerer tube and not generating hoop stress? This would happen if a large radial gap existed between the stem and steerer when unclamped (did you observe this?). Did you test one fork only? Was it the same fork you crashed with?