Many of the ideas like that are filtering out from cycle components, particularly DH (downhill racing) as they are absolutely obsessed with modding/ adjusting anything.
The forks are often up around 40mm stanchion as well, so bigger than our era bikes!
Brakes too, currently working on setups with floating discs, four or six pot calipers with titanium pistons, usually machined from billet.
But the forks, there's just so much to adjust, setup etc, that people get completely lost in what they are doing with all sort of weird mods, some very shonky, that some have a go at.