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10-08-11 | 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by yummygooey

I believe my frame is ISO (Mercier Kilo TT, specs say it uses a fork with a 26.4mm crown). I'm hoping the fork is ISO, but if it's JIS I should be able to have an LBS mill the crown down, right? I need to have the fork taken in for the cutting and some additional threading anyways.

Thanks for your help!

Yout frame is very likely to be ISO, and so is the fork. But, in any case, JIS frames and forks can easily (for a bit of dough) be changed to ISO. In many cases forks need to be milled anyway, so no issue there.

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