Originally Posted by
Iride01
Are you dead set on keeping it original? If you are or have someone that can braze well, then make it threadless. You can use the same fork and just have the steerer tube cut off and a new section brazed on. Depending on the knowledge of the person doing the brazing, it could be the entire steerer tube (more knowledge required) or just cut off a few inches from the crown and another tube butted on with internal union.
Originally Posted by
FBinNY
Given that the ONLY issue the OP raised is fitting the crown race, this is a ton of work without solving anything.
While threadless headsets have their fans, and I'm not arguing against them, there's absolutely no way I'd ever consider changing this fine bike over to threadless.
The whole vibe I'm going for in this build is mid-90s, and centered on the 7410 Dura Ace groupset, so threadless is not in the cards. Also, it's a carbon fork with, I believe, a steel steerer and aluminum crown, so even though I do now know a talented framebuilder, I'd prefer to leave well enough alone.
Funny thing is, though - my first road bike, purchased back in 1995, was a 1994 Cannondale R500, which came with the then-new AHeadSet. So, yeah, threadless is not out of the question for mid-90s. But it IS out of the question for this build.