Originally Posted by robow
My road bike is about 5 years old and probably the last of the non-threadless stems was used. What advantages if any if I went threadless with a carbon fork? Would I save a pound, gain durability or reliability? My aluminum fork seems decent enough and the old quill type stem does allow for more adjustability, I just don't want to be doing this for the sake of looking more cool, or the OCP police might come knocking on my door. Your thoughts please.
Did the exact thing on 2 of my bikes - changed out threaded steel forks for threadless carbon fork with ALU steerers.
I was surprised by the weight diff.
the Campy Record Headset and Cinelli stem combo weighed almost 8 oz (EDIT * I may have overstated that weight, now I'm seemin to remember the headset/stem diff as being well over 6 oz... getting old...*) more than the Cane Creek S2 headset and an ITM ALU Stem (both stems 120s)
The CF fork was almost 1 lb+ lighter than the Columbus and Rey531 Steel forks!!!
The CF fork rides fine, although not any smoother than the steel fork. Overall the change was worth it for me, losing some weight and, although not as 'pretty' as a nice threaded setup, threadless is way simple to get adjusted right and maintain. Visually, I've gotten used to 'threadless' and its not half ugly.