Originally Posted by fietsbob

I would have had to be in the NL Factory in 2003, to slap the hand of the guy reaching for the hacksaw

before the fork steerer was cut off in the 1st place. Cutting it down to some formula they used to march the frame size,

before shipping it out into the world market place,, where the original owner bought it.. i was 3rd in line.



So I got a BBB BHP 21, internal stem raiser and shim spacer set to bring it up to where it would have been, generally 1/3 of a Meter.

Doubled up on stems, to have the bar bag, over the fork crown mounted headlight, under the bars,

You could not have found a more apples and oranges match , fancy road bike with bling wheels, vs a touring load carrying bike for touring the world..

They are both Fruit, both Bikes..