Originally Posted by
bulgie
Those forks sold as replacements often had a ridiculous number of threads, trying to fit all frame sizes with one fork. Those sellers should be hung up by their thumbs!
I was a seller then, or a rep for one, and this was the sole French fork we had, Tange with about 1/3 of the steerer threaded. Cheap generic replacements were much worse in this respect, but with French you don't have many choices.