Taken onboard, with conditions.
Now I have seen one. I’ll accept Slant 6, nice find. Though I don’t accept “plenty”. If you ever feel you have too many Llewellyn’s, let me know!! Has a frame been made with Sax Max lugs (and 1 1/8" fork crown) yet?
Hybrids and MTBs… any track threaded 1 1/8? Even an I-talian threaded 1 1/8?
There are 1 1/8" steel lugged frames as Blakey has pointed out. For the most it’s overkill to use a 1 1/8" steerer unless it’s a tandem or for some other heavy duty purpose. 1" steel is plenty strong and the 1 1/8" ball started rolling because of alloy and carbon forks and needing a larger diameter steerer in the absence of material strength/weight. Most of the oversize frames with the lugs mentioned above that i’ve seen built are for 3rd party Carbon forks … why? I don’t know, weight I guess? But to me it’s like putting low profile tyres on a 4wd?
No, I saw a couple in the US, and the models they have listed on their site are quite nice. Nothing that’s better than my Co-Motion’s though, so the credit card’s holstered.
what’s wrong with a threadless steerer? quills are heavy as shit.
threadless stems = easy peasy italianesy
and if you’re gonna whinge about the threadless steerer you should probly start whinging about the drilled fork too :-\