Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
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Re: Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
Postby boyracer » Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:38 am
Most of my bikes are 1/2 as old as me....but there still older than the other guys in the race!
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Re: Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
Postby TDC » Thu Dec 13, 2012 1:51 pm
I agree. My Merckx Corsa Extra and Colnago Dream have i" threaded forks and headset. That's not what is holding me back. They look so much more elegant than Aheadsets. I was commenting because OP said he didn't want 1" threaded forks.il padrone wrote:For nearly 100 of the last 110 years of the TdF, that is all the master pros rode on. Not sure I see what the problem with 1" steerers really is.TDC wrote:Nice frames, but I think they 1" threaded fork
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Re: Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
Postby Jean » Thu Dec 13, 2012 2:37 pm
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Re: Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
Postby __PG__ » Thu Dec 13, 2012 3:29 pm
This is important. My old frame has a 1" threaded steerer and I'm going to convert it to a threadless setup at some point so I can run 31.6 mm handlebars. There are very few modern bars for 25.4 mm handlebar clamps.Jean wrote:Stems are an eye of the beholder thing. I'd prefer a threadless setup any day, at least on a steel bike built today (a restoration of an older bike might be a different matter). A head tube for 1,1/8" forks will certainly give you more fork options too.
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Re: Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
Postby TDC » Thu Dec 13, 2012 4:14 pm
You could use one of these until you do full conversion.__PG__ wrote:This is important. My old frame has a 1" threaded steerer and I'm going to convert it to a threadless setup at some point so I can run 31.6 mm handlebars. There are very few modern bars for 25.4 mm handlebar clamps.Jean wrote:Stems are an eye of the beholder thing. I'd prefer a threadless setup any day, at least on a steel bike built today (a restoration of an older bike might be a different matter). A head tube for 1,1/8" forks will certainly give you more fork options too.
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Re: Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
Postby humanbeing » Thu Dec 13, 2012 8:43 pm
The reissued Cinelli 1A quill stem has a 26mm clamp, quite a few handlebars available.__PG__ wrote:This is important. My old frame has a 1" threaded steerer and I'm going to convert it to a threadless setup at some point so I can run 31.6 mm handlebars. There are very few modern bars for 25.4 mm handlebar clamps.Jean wrote:Stems are an eye of the beholder thing. I'd prefer a threadless setup any day, at least on a steel bike built today (a restoration of an older bike might be a different matter). A head tube for 1,1/8" forks will certainly give you more fork options too.
My personal preference is quill but most off the shelf steel frames these days will have a 1 & 1/8 threadless steerer and of course a custom frame can be made how you like.
Different strokes for different folks,
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Re: Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
Postby joewrcompositi » Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:42 am
and Scapin http://www.scapin.com/ita/bici-carbonio ... t/gallery/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
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Re: Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
Postby booge » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:14 pm
If you can get one second hand I'd still highly recommend them. I still check eBay to see if any are going cheap, unfortunately the wife would kill me if i added another bike. The Scapins really do have a life all of their own. Not as light as carbon but feel so good to ride that weight just isn't a consideration when you're riding one. Aaahhh regrets.....
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Re: Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
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Re: Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
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Re: Boutique steel racing frame recommendations
Postby Jean » Sun Dec 16, 2012 11:08 am
If it was being presented as one thing and actually another, well that would be annoying.
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