Very dapper.
Gentlemen don’t use this sort of vernacular.
i knew fezdango was the tweed type.
does the double top tube kilo go ITT?
this thread makes me sad. also, i agree with dutret about swobo. that one bmx cruiser thing looks fun to ride but still costs way too fucking much for what it is.
I think a path racer wanna-be should go here. Also, if Grant Petersen can’t pull off a twin top-tube, why does the bike island guy think he can?
ANT had a Twin top tube bike that I thought was very pretty. I wouldn’t BUY it, but I liked it. Of course he makes em to order, so he doesn’t have to speculate about wether people will buy them, and I notice it’s no longer on his website.
hey, does anyone know why nagasawas are njs stamped but not the langster? they’re both steel with threaded headsets. is it a quality thing?
I don’t know if this has been mentioned yet, but Specialized is indeed doing a steel Allez as well. I just saw a pic in the sales reps 2010 catalog today, it has a threaded headset, downtube shifters, and will cost somewhere around $650.
Relative to my interests that is.
who the fuck wants a new bike with dt shifters and a threaded headset? (no offense)
i guess all the decent old road bikes got all their shit chopped off and spraybombed flat black and specialized is getting ready for the next classic steel roadie trend. fuji released one last year but i have no clue how it’s doing.
speaking of which, i wonder how long it will take for the word “roadie” to become the next “fixie”, and a forum called raodbike.com starts up chock full of people who despise the term yet use it ironically from time to time.
Josh, it’s all coming true. First the touring bike fad, now it’s a renewed fascination with threaded headsets.
As the official voice of the great prophet that is EuroJosh, I am proud to disclose Josh’s knowledge of this even no less than about 4 years ago when he imagined a threadless-to-threaded adapter. The exact opposite if the threaded/threadless adapter which allows you to run a threadless stem with a threaded headset, this device allows you to use a quill stem on a threadless steertube. Though the exact mechanical workings were not revealed to me, I must assume that it will be finicky, difficult to adjust and prone to rapid failure if not adjusted properly, requiring at least one purpose made tool, if for no other reason than to reintroduce a level of complexity to bike maintenance that had otherwise been eliminated with the invention of threadless headsets.
that sounds pretty cool except for thr threaded headset.
y’know, on bikes with a 1" head tube, you can run threaded forks with a threadless headset if they’re both unsealed bearing systems. all you need is the threaded top nut and some spacers and the rest of the hardware that goes with the threadless headset. i don’t know how well it holds up as i rode like that for about a mile for shits and/or giggles. i imagine this would also work on 1 1/8" steerer tubes, but then you’d need the ever elusive 1 1/8" threaded forks and 25.4mm quill stems.
either that or you can use one of those clamping spacers and some external clamp that serves the purpose of the star nut temporarily.
[quote=TimArchy]Josh, it’s all coming true. First the touring bike fad, now it’s a renewed fascination with threaded headsets.
As the official voice of the great prophet that is EuroJosh, I am proud to disclose Josh’s knowledge of this even no less than about 4 years ago when he imagined a threadless-to-threaded adapter. The exact opposite if the threaded/threadless adapter which allows you to run a threadless stem with a threaded headset, this device allows you to use a quill stem on a threadless steertube. Though the exact mechanical workings were not revealed to me, I must assume that it will be finicky, difficult to adjust and prone to rapid failure if not adjusted properly, requiring at least one purpose made tool, if for no other reason than to reintroduce a level of complexity to bike maintenance that had otherwise been eliminated with the invention of threadless headsets.[/quote]
http://sheldonbrown.org/brown/index.html
you were beaten to it.
^^ holy crap:
the fuck?
As prophetic as Sheldon is, that bike is actually Threaded/Threadless/Threaded. It uses a quill steertube extended which is designed for threaded systems. It just so happens that a threadless stem clamps perfectly onto it.
there used to constantly be kids on bf asking how to use a quill stem with their stock pista/kilo.
probly still are, for all I know.
Well the Kilo used to come with one, and I remember a minor uproar when they switched to threadless.