Originally Posted by
Darth Lefty
My strong impression is that most people who stick together steel frames for a living or hobby are doing threaded headsets for aesthetic reasons, or using carbon or MTB forks.
Factory forks come uncut but steel ones are now vastly outnumbered.
So I figure while one guy might do it a lot, most aren't much.
And finally the Surly LHT and Cross Check were long well known for having very long top tubes (10mm longer than the seat tube) that resulted in a stack of spacers topped with a riser stem.
We sell a lot of modern, mass produced bikes at my shop (with Surlys being a mainstay in that category) that have steel forks, and almost all of them have threadless steerer tubes and we cut the steerer tubes on almost all of them. One of the main purposes of threadless steerers is that the manufacturer can produce one steerer tube length for all frame sizes of a certain model bike. So on all but the largest frame sizes, the steerer will need to be cut accordingly, unless a customer has a specific request.