Alright, this is my appeal to the ST experts. Does anyone know where to find an inexpensive threaded fork such as Martec makes? I know Profile makes one for around $170 and Chucks has one from martec but I need 190mm of steerer tube and his only has 178mm. There is a long boring story behind this, but I didn’t budget for a fork in my new build because I wasn’t supposed to need a new one and now this is on top of several other budget extensions so I’m trying to be cheap.
Thanks,
Kevin
650 or 700? I think I saw some lurking around the back at Endurosport & at Fitness Technique
try toronto@endurosport.com or fitnesstechnique@bellnet.ca
tell 'em Speedy sent ya 
Sorry, 700c.
how soon do you need it? I may have one that I got off a vintage softride. I left it in my parents basement.
If you still haven’t found one yet I have two left over from a funny bike project that meet your requirements, a Kinesis Air Foil and a Kinesis by Easton. Both are aluminum with steel steerers.
Let me know.
I may have a 2002 carbon Kinesis fork with 1" threaded steerer. I need to check the length of the steerer though. Not sure on that. I can’t give it away, but I could let it go for cheap. PM me if interested and I’ll check the length of the steerer.
You do know that you can thread any of the threadless forks, as long as they have a metal steertube, right?
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Fredly, you bring up an interesting point. I was wondering about this myself and had asked my LBS. They said that I needed a threaded fork. Have you done this before and does it matter that all the threaded forks I’ve seen have a cro-moly steerer tube on aluminum crown, with carbon legs? How would I go about threading a threadless fork? Go to machine shop?
Thanks,
Kevin
P.S. ST rules, where else could I get this sort of information so fast and so many offers of assistance?
It’s not just cutting the threads, but also the groove for the washer that goes between the headset cup and the top nut. The LBS mightbe able to cut the threads, but I doubt they have the tooling to cut that groove.
I’ve seen a few threaded forks on ebay lately. Might be worth a check.
I’ve been riding an alloy steer tube threadless fork that I threaded myself for about 5 years now. It’s not a big deal at all. Any good machine shop, any frame builder, or most really good bike shops can do this for you. It’s about a ten minute job - stupid easy, basic pumbing kind of stuff (hell, threading pipe is generally harder than this is!)
Plenty of threaded forks do not use the lock groove, so that’s a non-factor.
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