Standard steer tube length on threadless fork?

Do threaded forks have a standard uncut steer tube length? If so, what is it?

Art Harris

"Art Harris" wrote in message
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| Do threaded forks have a standard uncut steer tube length? If so, what
is it?

Kind of depends on the frame size. Obviously a 48cm frame is gonna have
a smaller head tune than a 62.

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| Do threaded forks have a standard uncut steer tube length? If so, what
| is it?

The main reason that bike manufacturers switched to threadless forks is that
there is no standard threaded fork steerer length. They had to stock many
different sizes of each fork to match different frame sizes and geometries.
Threadless forks reduce their costs.

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| Do threaded forks have a standard uncut steer tube length? If so, what
| is it?

The main reason that bike manufacturers switched to threadless forks is that
there is no standard threaded fork steerer length. They had to stock many
different sizes of each fork to match different frame sizes and geometries.
Threadless forks reduce their costs.

Twaddle.

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Art Harris wrote:
Do threaded forks have a standard uncut steer tube length? If so, what is it?

Art Harris

Drat, I said it right on the subject line, but not in the text. I was
asking about THREADLESS forks.

Art Harris

On 2 Nov 2004 08:38:26 -0800, (Art Harris) wrote:

Do threaded forks have a standard uncut steer tube length?

No.
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On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:00:39 GMT, Harris
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Art Harris wrote:
Do threaded forks have a standard uncut steer tube length? If so, what is it?

Art Harris

Drat, I said it right on the subject line, but not in the text. I was
asking about THREADLESS forks.

Still "no".

Look at the steerer lengths available from various makers. They range
from less than 200mm to more than 300mm. The manufacturers *could*
just make all the tubes really long and let the installer shorten them
as needed, but they don't...and as a result, when you need a really
long steerer (as I did last month when building up a bike on a 23"
Schwinn mtb frame) it can be a pain in the neck to find one.
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Art Harris wrote:

Do thread[less] forks have a standard uncut steer tube length? If so,
what is it?

300 mm is common.

~PB

n2h Do threaded forks have a standard uncut steer tube length? If so, what is
it? BRBR

260mm generally.

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diablo writes The main reason that bike manufacturers switched to threadless
forks is that
there is no standard threaded fork steerer length. They had to stock many
different sizes of each fork to match different frame sizes and geometries.
Threadless forks reduce their costs.

Twaddle.

Only reason for threadless, in the early 90s, was to reduce cost. They painted
it as some sort of superior system but it was to be able to not thread and
produce one steerer for all forks.

-- BRBR


Peter Chisholm
Vecchio's Bicicletteria
1833 Pearl St.
Boulder, CO, 80302
(303)440-3535
http://www.vecchios.com
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