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.
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