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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!d70g2000hsc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <95fc580e-e7e6-491a-9cd9-db2caebab140@d70g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Mixing the "wrong" headset/fork and stem Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:10:11 -0700 (PDT) References:  <1uh1mnacgsqaq$.vosvdlmk5kwb.dlg@40tude.net> Lines: 26 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.206.99 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1222715412 23325 127.0.0.1 (29 Sep 2008 19:10:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d70g2000hsc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.206.99; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091620 Firefox/3.0.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2463 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:669538

On Sep 29, 4:03=A0pm, _  wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:52:47 +0100, Richard Thrippleton wrote: > > Does anybody here have personal experience of using a quill stem with a > > threadless steerer? I'm aware of a trick that Sheldon Brown used in > > which the pressure on the top bearings is maintained by some kind of > > pinch collar (seatpost clamp?), eliminating the cap at the top and the > > spacers on the steerer. I'd assume that this leaves you with a steerer > > in which you're free to insert a quill stem, rather than clamping a > > new-style stem to the steerer. Can one get steerers in the appropriate > > diameter? Are there any non-obvious pitfalls? Am I being dumb in some > > other way? > > > I don't currently have any threadless forks to test this with. The > > reason I ask is that I see a time in the future when it gets > > increasingly hard to buy bicycles with threaded forks, and want to > > continue using the (clearly superior) quill stem technology. > > a) threaded forks are unlikely to be anything but easily available; and > > b) it's all just metal - pinch clamps are easily made, forks are easily > threaded. > > Don't worry.

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