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Old 10-11-2018, 07:09 PM
Pearsom Pearsom is offline
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Originally Posted by froze View Post
I see a lot of classic bikes here, or modern interpretation of the classic era, but can't understand the conversion to threadless on either. I have a threadless modern bike but I have to say something, and obviously this is just my worthless opinion, but I really don't like the look of the threadless design, the threaded design was just very graceful looking, threadless looks chunky and clunky.
From an aesthetic standpoint I agree that a quill stem looks "right" and often is a cleaner design for many of the older steel frames

From a comfort standpoint I prefer the larger diameter 31.8 handlebars I can use with threadless. I'm 6'5" and my hands just feel better on these larger diameter bars

So ... comfort. That's my reason
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