Originally Posted by
FBinNY
While what followed is factually correct, the tone of the opener isn't justified.
One may just as offhandedly say, "if one knew anything about framebuilding, one would know that framebuilders rarely, if ever, use a 44mm headtube, then use adadaptors to fit a smaller fork".
Given no other info, folks were correct in going with the odds, assuming that the headtube and OEM fork were matched, and therefore a larger fork would not fit.
The tone was in response to the tone of the post that I quoted.
44mm head tubes are quite commonly used by custom framebuilders, because of their versatility. Paragon Machine Works sells a lot of them and I use them on nearly every frame that I build. No one is using adapters to fit a smaller fork. There are headsets designed to work for this purpose. An 1 1/8" steerer would have an internal ZS style cup on both ends, whereas a tapered steerer would us a ZS cup on the top and and external EC style cup on the lower.