Old 03-26-08 | 08:58 AM
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Careful with those fully-threaded steer tubes.

As much as I dislike threadless, you might (I stress, MIGHT) be in for a nasty surprise when you tighten your stem. Had a Hawley USA-supplied (don't know the actual brand of the fork) steel fork split on me once due to the full-length threading and washer channel:



Didn't even realized it split before I tightened it too much, and the headset started locking up.

If you do go for threadless, use a cheap, disposable stem to check the fork's strength when installing it first - I ruined a mint Cinelli 120mm 1E in the process above.

-Kurt
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