Yes, there are pluses and minuses to each. When you want to adjust your handlebar height, or when you're buying a used bike, having a threadless stem is not an advantage. What's a few seconds' work -- or maybe a replacement with a Technomic long quill stem -- with threaded is either a royal pain or time to buy a new fork and good luck with that with threadless.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Abelson" <d...@abelsons.net> To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 2:30:16 PM Subject: Re: [RBW] Re: New "budget" Riv in Summer 2013? I was reminded of one other benefit of threadless the other day when I pulled the stem out of my quickbeam to grease it after not greasing it for longer than I should have. While the stem was not stuck yet, I had to apply a little extra force to get it out. The stem getting stuck is not an issue with threadless. Don't get me wrong I love my rivs that and I realize there are various kludges such as adaptors to get threadless stems to work on bikes designed for quills but for what its worth I have a preference for threadless and having had bikes with both have found no downside for me to threadless. My opinion would probably be different if I liked to change bar height mid ride etc. Dan Abelson Saint Paul, mn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
