View Single Post
Old 03-21-08, 08:47 PM
  #20  
well biked
Senior Member
 
well biked's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 7,487
Mentioned: 1 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 140 Post(s)
Liked 162 Times in 89 Posts
Originally Posted by jjvw
Here's the update you've all been waiting for. I swung by my favorite LBS after work today. I asked the old man behind the counter if the fork could be reamed from 21.1 to 22.2mm. After complimenting the nice fork crown, he said he could and has done the job many times--including on old Schwinn steerer tubes. On top of that, he has never heard of one failing afterwards.

I'll let you know what happens in about a week after he's done with mine.
Hey, that's cool. Please do let us know how it turns out. Is he going to use a hand reamer for this? How much does he charge to do it?
well biked is offline