Originally Posted by evanyc
so i'm making some decisions regarding a custom bike i'm having built up, and the only one i'm really clueless on is this. anyone care to share some insight into why i should choose one vs the other?
At Kogswell, we feel that the only smart choice is choice itself.
We make lugged and TIG'd frames w/ head tubes that fit 1 1/8" headsets. And we supply them w/ headtube reducers that allow a 1" headset to be insalled. Then to make it all work, we offer 1" threaded
and 1 1/8" threadless forks.
The interesting thing is that customers do indeed choose. We thought that 1" threaded would be more popular, but it isn't.
There are only a handful of head lugs w/ that dimension. But they are available. And Waterford has a set if you haven't picked a builder yet and you want lugged construction. And there are lots of nicely machined head tubes available for TIG'd constuctions.
Our P model uses lugs from Kirk Pacenti which are sized for 1" headsets. So for that frame, we offer 1" threaded and 1" threadless forks.
Finally, we also stock the YST GeForce headset. Its design allows for either threadless and quill stems to used.