Steering Fork Column 4 aheadset conv

I want to convert my conventional headset to the treadless headset
(aheadset), but still have the threaded steel steering fork column. Is it
possible to keep the original fork and have the old fork column removed and
a new threadless column brazed on? Better to get a new fork?
-tom

Nashbar, Bikeman and others sell 1" and 1.125" adapters- basically
these work like regular quill 1" stems but the bit above the headset
looks like the top of a threadless fork of the desired diameter. You
can keep your old fork, etc. Better to keep your old quill unless need
for one of oversize handlebars is driving you to threadless.

Tom Nakashima wrote:
I want to convert my conventional headset to the treadless headset
(aheadset), but still have the threaded steel steering fork column. Is it
possible to keep the original fork and have the old fork column removed and
a new threadless column brazed on?

As long as it *is* brazed and it's not a unicrown design where the
steerer extends right down, yes.

Better to get a new fork?

Not really, although carbon forks are very cheap on *Bay.

Zog The Undeniable wrote:
Tom Nakashima wrote:
I want to convert my conventional headset to the treadless headset
(aheadset), but still have the threaded steel steering fork column. Is it
possible to keep the original fork and have the old fork column removed and
a new threadless column brazed on?

As long as it *is* brazed and it's not a unicrown design where the
steerer extends right down, yes.

Better to get a new fork?

Not really, although carbon forks are very cheap on *Bay.

As long as it's new. I would never buy a used carbon anything.