Jeez, I thought I might have written this but I've never had the pleasure of working on Honda forks and I have a 45 year old Honda.
This kind of reminded me of dropping the starter on the DeSoto. Two freaking bolts...two, but without the special Chrysler wrenches, it takes two hours to drop the starter and another two to put it back in. Per the 1952 Flat Rate Manual, even with the special wrenches, it's 1.5 hrs each way.