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What is the cleanest threaded to threadless conversion look?
I'm in the process of restoring and rebuilding a 1993 Ritchey Road Logic and looking to do a balance of classic looks with modern functionality, but the stem is the main bit I'm hung up on deciding. I'm hoping to convert to a clean and simple threadless stem (see below) that I will paint to match with my frame, but most of the quill adapters for threadless stems look ugly and out of place sitting atop a classic threaded headset.
Has anyone achieved a quill adapter/conversion that allows the look to be seamlessly cleaned up spacers and a standard top cap? Also would it look cleaner to go with a 1" threadless instead of the bulkier 1-1/8"? Open to opinions! |
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https://www.innicycle.com/store.html
Aa for 1" vs 11/8, i would decide on stem first and choose the headset convertion after that. There are not a lot of 1" stems that look good that works with oversize bars.. If you dont want oversized (31.8) there are some nice 1" stems out there but not at all as many as for 11/8 and u get a much bigger pool of bars to choose from. There are cheap solutions for 1" convertions as well but they are all very heavy. Last edited by tuscanyswe; 08-29-2023 at 04:46 PM. |
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I have used the Innicycle headset threadless conversion on several old 1” threaded forks. It is clean and looks good. It is not as heavy as using the stem adaptor commonly available either. I also like that it is available in silver or black.
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Run a quill! What's the issue with a threaded stem?
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You are generally limited to bars with a 26mm clamp diameter with a quill stem and it can be hard to source a quill stem for 31.8mm bars.
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Quill stems for 31.8 are generally super ugly, and 26.0 bars are plentiful and come in all sorts of shapes.
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Nitto UI12
I personally prefer the look of these if modern parts are part of the plan
https://www.somafabshop.com/shop/nit...attr=4305,1955 |
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Velo orange 31.8 quill stem. It looks quite nice in person too. They've been out of stock for a year on their site but I ordered one from blue lug in Japan.
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Go with the Innicycle solution or work with the BBB Cycling Extender, BHP-20. |
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If you can slam the stem, a quill adapter is no problem. I have 2 of them on bikes and I keep forgetting they are there. Otherwise they look worse than that Nitto. Too bad they don't make an aluminum quill that takes bigger bars
Funny thing is, I'm pretty sure both of those bikes have 26mm bars on them. |
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I went down a rabbit hole looking for a quill stem with a 31.8mm clamp recently, with mixed results. Ended up buying one from someone on this forum
https://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=296350 |
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Personally, I don't mind the look. But I also "grew up" during the era of Ritchey stems on the RB-1, so the UI-12 looks like a thowback to that. To me. |
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If quill is still an option, these came up when I looked up 31.8 quill stem:
https://wearefactoryfive.com/products/titan-stem https://www.justrideit.com.au/produc...ive-titan-stem https://www.ticycles.com/components/...titanium-quill |
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I have used Innicycle and liked it.
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adapter, quill, stem, threadless |
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