I'm talking about replacing the stock for on a LHT with the same exact fork with a longer steerer, if aging or injury (or whatever) makes it desirable to have higher bars. Upgrading to a more magical fork is another matter. Robert Pirsig had a famous book about a guy who drove himself insane trying to define "quality", so I won't try to argue whether or not a Surly fork is of the same quality as a Nitto stem.
Interesting point about disposability. To an extent, you are right. This doesn't mean you're likely to wear out your LHT anytime soon, but let's say you wreck it somehow. No problem, for $400ish, you can get another one just like it tomorrow. For more precious frames, like your Longstaff or most Rivs, replacement will be more costly in terms of time and money. On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 3:51:33 PM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 09/24/2014 04:36 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: > > For a lot of us, the ideal of a lifetime bike isn't realistic. Tastes > > often change faster than our bodies do. Anyway, I would point out that > > a new Surly fork with uncut steerer isn't much more costly than a > > Nitto quill stem. If you don't cut it too short at the beginning, > > which a lot of people do (and regret), then there shouldn't be an > > issue for many years. > > > > And a new fork of comparable quality to a Nitto stem will cost over six > times as much, about as much as a new frame of comparable (or even > superior) quality to the Surly frame, based on what we learned in the > discussion of the Lyon forks. Basically, I interpret all this as saying > frames made for threadless forks should be considered disposable. And > I'm sure there are plenty of production frames out there that > legitimately could be considered disposable tools. Certainly the LHT > qualifies. But I don't consider a frame like my Longstaff a disposable > tool. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
