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Re: Photos of Bikes w/Konversion Forks

1" threadless on mine. IRRC, threading the fork was going to cost around $40. My
bike needed a new headset anyway, so I put the money I would have spent on
threading toward a headset.

Mechanically it's great, but I underestimated how much it would change the look
of the bike. I liked my dirt drop stem...



--- In KOG@yahoogroups.com, william furlonger <furlonger@...> wrote:
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> What are people doing with their konversion forks...threading them or
> getting a 1 inch threadless headset?
> Bill in
> San Diego
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Jim Gourgoutis <jimg@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any photos of a bike fitted with a Kogswell 650B
> > Konversion fork they could share? I'm looking for inspiration for an
> > upcoming project...
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Jim G
> >
> >
> >
>





Thu Jul 2, 2009 4:39 am

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Does anyone have any photos of a bike fitted with a Kogswell 650B Konversion fork they could share? I'm looking for inspiration for an upcoming project... ...
Jim Gourgoutis
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Jun 29, 2009
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Jim, What do you have in mind? I have been plotting a konversion for my wife's '88 schwinn traveler. This bike is a front end only konversion:...
Neil Anderson
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Jun 30, 2009
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... Tentative plan: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimg/3207984087 + http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimg/3542499345/ But I'm undecided as of yet... -Jim G...
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I have a Kogswell konversion fork, that I was planning on having the canti posts cut off and Mafac centerpull posts welded on for a low trail conversion. Then,...
Steve Chan
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Jun 30, 2009
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What are people doing with their konversion forks...threading them or getting a 1 inch threadless headset? Bill in San Diego...
william furlonger
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Jul 1, 2009
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... 1" threadless HS is planned for mine. -Jim G...
Jim Gourgoutis
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... There's been a very minor resurgence of them recently -- mostly from 'track' frames. The bikesdirect/bikeisland guy made several generations of fixies that...
Fred Blasdel
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1" threadless on mine. IRRC, threading the fork was going to cost around $40. My bike needed a new headset anyway, so I put the money I would have spent on...
Neil Anderson
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... I have two; I threaded one and I got a threadless headset for the other. -- John Speare Spokane, WA USA http://cyclingspokane.blogspot.com/...
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