Originally Posted by
Retro Grouch
Yeah, you might be able to find a way to cobble something together and make a quill stem work but what would be the point? You'd still have a bunch of bulky hardware above your headset so you'd lose the look.
you might be able to find something sleek.
all you need is a binding ring (like for your seatpost) that can slide down your steertube and hold the headset together. the only problem is you don't get the advantage of the starnut to hold everything together while you get the tension right...
provided you can do that, you can easily just throw a quill stem into your threadless fork. sheldon has spoken of such things in the past.