Originally Posted by
dsbrantjr
"Didn't Sheldon Brown have a post where he used a seatpost collar to compress the headset so he could have a long steerer tube without spacers? Don't remember where off the top of my head and am too lazy to google it, though. "
See post #2
Whoops, read the first half of your post but skipped the second. Looks like Sheldon also says that this might not be the best for 1" steerers (or carbon of any diameter, not that you have that), so maybe this isn't the way for OP to go.
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