My 1983 Takara Highlander also had a 21.1mm steerer. Maybe the KHS is older than late 80's?
On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 11:23:36 AM UTC-5, Shawn Granton wrote: > > > > On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 6:02:17 AM UTC-7, franklyn wrote: >> >> I have respaced the rear drop out to 130mm and installed the headset. I >> was about to install the stem when I realized that it uses a less common >> standard steerer tube with inner diameter of 21.1mm (or .833"). After some >> googling, I found that several stems and stem adapters using that standard >> are still being made and can be easily purchased at a modest price. I also >> explored with a local framebuilder to replace the steerer tube to standard >> 1" with inner diameter of 22.2mm. It's doable, but the cost of this mod >> exceeds what I paid for the frameset. >> > > Nice bike! > > Yeah, the 21.1 stem. Some early mountain bikes came with that size, since > that's the standard "cruiser" stem size, and the early MTB's were basing it > all off that old Schwinn Excelsior. My 1984 Raleigh Crested Butte came with > that stem. (And a lovely Bullmoose too, but I had to switch bars, which led > me to discover the funky sizing.) > > Wald makes a stem in the 21.1 size, but the Kalloy stems are a bit nicer. > > yours, > Shawn > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
