Originally Posted by
hillzofvalp
$80 for a carbon fork new? wouldn't that be worth it?
Threaded route:
$20 run-of-the-mill headset (would have preferred dura ace or chris king.. so really $60-80)
$30-40 cinelli 1a stem in black
$30 smaller diameter bars
$0 used carbon fork I know nothing about
$60-80
Threadless route
$60 chris king headset that I'd get for a future bike anyways
$35 new fork (after selling old one)
$58 thomson stem new (after trading in some parts I didn't need to lbs)
<$10 spacers. (possibly free from lbs)
Piece of mind and good aesthetics - priceless
$0 FSA energy traditional bars 31.8 (got for free basically)
$153-$163
Just wanted to put it into perspective a little bit. So, for me, it's about twice as expensive. It's a good investment, in my opinion, to go threadless. I want to try the riser temporarily, but then I've got to buy a riser. Why don't I just get rid of the fork and do it the "right" way from the "beginning". Can anyone offer any ideas about new carbon forks?
At this point I`m getting the impression that you seem to think that tour Thompson stem and FSA bars can`t be used with anything except a threadless fork -WRONG!
Any $10 to$35 threaded to threadless conversion extension (available in different diameters) will let you do that. In fact - I for one was under the impression that that was pretty much what got this thread started in the first place.
As for carbon forks - three of the bikes that I personally built up this year using Thompson stems had DT Swiss carbon suspension forks and one had a rigid bladed fork. The rigid fork retailed for over $450 and the suspension forks run around $1,200 ea. Basicly for $100 you,re going to get garbage. You`d be better off using a decent cromoly fork or the one you have now. If you think there`s something about the fork you have now that is suspect - then you shouldn`t be selling it either.
And considering a bike an `investment`? And now, after initially insisting on using that threadless headset with that threaded fork you now want to `do things the right way` after its now been spelt out clearly enough how to do what you wanted to do in the first place - safely?
From my perspective this thread has turned out to be a very poor `investment` of my interest and expertise. Think I`ll just stop wasting my time.