Quoted By:
Henlo /bqg/.
I'm rebuilding a cheap Halfords city bike into a European style trekking bike - pic rel (background pic is my custom streetfighter road bike).
I've replaced the rear 7 speed freewheel for an M Part Freehub wheel, fitted 11-36 10s Shimano SLX, replaced the cup and cone bearing BB and steel square taper crankset with Shimano Deore XT T-8000 parts and it's turned into a 3x10 drivetrain.
The step-through frame is aluminium, but the fork is cro-mo, with a 1⅛ threaded steerer. I know the headset standard is EC34/30 and I've been thinking of replacing the fork altogether to turn it into a threadless design.
Only problem is that Ritchey cyclo-cross forks cost more than the bike originally did, road forks like the Brand-X one only accept 28c tyres (I have Schwable Marathon 35c ready to install) and I see no cause to use a suspension fork given the weight it adds.
This leaves me with expensive and impractical cyclo-cross forks and obscenely priced rigid MTB forks. Unless there's an alternative?
Or is replacing a 1⅛ threaded fork with a threadless one a useless endeavour?
