... or not, as the case may be.
Today I was furtling around with the saddle height to take advantage of the Far East comfy saddle and realised that for years I'd been riding it (the old one) just a bit low (I followed some of the late Sheldon Brown's advice to set it higher and higher until it was too high, then drop it until it was right). That seemed to do the trick, but then I wanted the bars a bit higher - problem was, the stem is a quill type and it's out at the maximum safe limit.
Then I recalled that a couple of years ago I bought a set of Marzocchi Bomber Z2 forks, with the intention of using them on a NOS ally frame I'd picked up. It never happened, for various reasons, and the project is a back-burner one for the moment. Problem is, the Claud Butler steerer tube diameter is 1" and I was damn sure the MB forks had an 1 1/8" steerer tube. Turned out I was wrong - the steerer tube supplied is a 1" one and there are two of them of differing lengths - problem is, the only fly in the ointment, is they are threadless. Buggre.
Hohum, more expense - looks like either I can thread the long one and that will give me sufficient height with the quill stem, or I can use it threadless with a new headset and new stem with sufficient rise on it.
Has anyone any experience of threading steerer tubes? I've done plenty of more mundane threading, but never one of these.
Today I was furtling around with the saddle height to take advantage of the Far East comfy saddle and realised that for years I'd been riding it (the old one) just a bit low (I followed some of the late Sheldon Brown's advice to set it higher and higher until it was too high, then drop it until it was right). That seemed to do the trick, but then I wanted the bars a bit higher - problem was, the stem is a quill type and it's out at the maximum safe limit.
Then I recalled that a couple of years ago I bought a set of Marzocchi Bomber Z2 forks, with the intention of using them on a NOS ally frame I'd picked up. It never happened, for various reasons, and the project is a back-burner one for the moment. Problem is, the Claud Butler steerer tube diameter is 1" and I was damn sure the MB forks had an 1 1/8" steerer tube. Turned out I was wrong - the steerer tube supplied is a 1" one and there are two of them of differing lengths - problem is, the only fly in the ointment, is they are threadless. Buggre.
Hohum, more expense - looks like either I can thread the long one and that will give me sufficient height with the quill stem, or I can use it threadless with a new headset and new stem with sufficient rise on it.
Has anyone any experience of threading steerer tubes? I've done plenty of more mundane threading, but never one of these.
