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

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:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9436197@N04/3611886089/



I would have kept the both wheels 559, but Matthew was not (is not?) offering a

559 fork for a 1" steerer tube, on the rationale that most 559 bikes have slack

ht angles and are therefore hard to make low-trail. I say more offset could be

nice anyway. Oh, well.



Besides being odd and making it hard to match tires front and rear, this setup

is pleasing to me; it has eliminated TCO and pedal strike (in addition to the

standard changes in handling).



keep us posted on what you come up with!



n











--- In KOG@yahoogroups.com, "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

>

--- In KOG@yahoogroups.com, "Neil Anderson" <neilanderson966@...> wrote:

>

> Jim,

>

> What do you have in mind? I have been plotting a konversion for my wife's '88

schwinn traveler.

>





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

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, I came across a surprising quandry - the donor bikes that I

picked up all seem to be relatively low trail already, so the

konversion fork box is sitting in the corner unopened.



    If you decide to get that Trek powdercoated, let me know. If the

raleigh competition wins the bake-off, it will need to be

powdercoated. Maybe we can swing a discount from Maas for doing two.



    Steve



On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jim Gourgoutis<jimg@...> wrote:

>

>

> --- In KOG@yahoogroups.com, "Neil Anderson" <neilanderson966@...> wrote:

>>

>> Jim,

>>

>> What do you have in mind? I have been plotting a konversion for my wife's

>> '88 schwinn traveler.

>>

>

> 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

>

>







--

"Sow a thought, reap an action. Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a

habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny." - Samuel

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--- In KOG@yahoogroups.com, william furlonger <furlonger@...> wrote:

>

> What are people doing with their konversion forks...threading them or

> getting a 1 inch threadless headset?

> Bill in

> San Diego

>



1" threadless HS is planned for mine.



-Jim G

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jim Gourgoutis<jimg@...> wrote:

> --- In KOG@yahoogroups.com, william furlonger <furlonger@...> wrote:

>>

>> What are people doing with their konversion forks...threading them or

>> getting a 1 inch threadless headset?

>

> 1" threadless HS is planned for mine.



There's been a very minor resurgence of them recently -- mostly from

'track' frames. The bikesdirect/bikeisland guy made several

generations of fixies that used them, to the bemusement of his

customers (some of which threaded their steerers).



You see super-high-end 1" threadless stems on eBay regularly for

cheap, like titanium custom serotta stems.

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:

>

> 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

> >

> >

> >

>

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:16 PM, william furlonger<furlonger@...> wrote:

>

>

> What are people doing with their konversion forks...threading them or

> getting a 1 inch threadless headset?





I have two; I threaded one and I got a threadless headset for the other.



--

John Speare

Spokane, WA USA

http://cyclingspokane.blogspot.com/