Buying them through his own site seems to work just fine?
forkmods.com
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Nice am glad they are actually available again. Imo these seem pretty cool, they are $$ but are cost competitive with getting a new 1â threadless fork and headset.
would be stiffer than a quill conversion
but if you use the upper part of the extension, arenât you effectively clamping the stem onto the headset locknut?
if the stem straddled the threaded race and the extension with a clamp bolt on each, then youâd maybe be locking it all together?
you should generally just use a quill conversion with a superfluous threadless spacer underneath if you want these aesthetics
This seems like a terrible solution to a non-existent problem, and I love deadender shit. Have a 1" steerer and want 31.8 bars? Nitto and others make 31.8 quill stems. If you need the threadless look or whatever a $10 quill adapter will do the trick.
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Iâve never managed to make them look anything but damn ugly. All the ones Iâve seen have a curved transition not amenable to spacers?
Edit: ok, some are worse than othersâŚ
The upper locknut and the quill+extension are bonded together and are effectively one piece, thatâs why there is a finish difference. I assume thatâs because manufacturing them in one piece and trying to cut that internal thread is pretty much impossible.
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@plutarck/@Elliott: I donât think itâs unreasonably priced for what it is, like some folks have pointed out in other places:
- Itâs produced in pretty low numbers Iâd imagine.
- The machining is outsourced from âthe inventorâ.
- Uses quality sealed bearings (and a fair amount of seals to the system as a whole).
- Standard/replaceable bearings: âIf not from me, then Cane Creekâs 1" cartridge bearings (27.15mm ID, 38mm OD, 6.5mm thick, 36/45 degree) just happen to be the correct size.â
Buying a quality headset, like a CC40/110 or CK and a quill adapter will be more expensive than this.
Oh I donât view it as an outrageous price. I think it fills a good niche allowing use of original forks and threadless without the significant aesthetic downside of the threaded headset to vanity spacer transition.
the top bit does extend into the fork with an expansion plug. Which would increase durability a fair amount
No way, I paid like 950 for my old quarq dfour off of merlin cycles and thought it was a steal for that price as retail was like 1200. New one i just got this year was $650 for everything at msrp
Looks like the Ratio technology guys have a hack for turning your sram shifter into a 13 speed using the Campag Ekar Cassette. Its not official yet. Apparently using a Hope hub.
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It would be cooler if they would turn their attention to the GX 2x11 for us 11 speed âdead endersâ.
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Is there a reason you cant run a shimano pusher? One of the ones that I think Fred described as shifting like Jesus making one set of footprints in the sand carrying you in a time of need?
edit: or are yaâll talking about drop bar bikes?
drop bar. i think itâs about the gradual death of exact actuation clutch danglers that will do 2x
Hell yeah. Fecking chain drop on my 2x yesterday, once again munged under my POS chain-keeper. That Wolftooth power link tool is a godsend in this situation. Pretty sure it wouldnât happen if it was clutched.
I guess they are part way there with this. I wonder if the GX dangler could be hacked this way, theyâd need to build a new guide too, to change from x-actuation to exact-actuation or wtf it is.
x actuation is partially about cable pull, but iirc itâs specific to danglers with no slant parallelogram and the funky offset on pulley wheels- x-horizon
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New China stems looking kinda tight
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taf.
SHIM LYFE
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