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> Quoting Alec <alecsmail@...>:
>> There is a piece of rubber in the sliders with a
>> threaded part in side it. So all you would need is longer tubes with
>> a washer SECURELY welded on to it to make your new stanchions.
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for Make,

http://www.mtb-bikes.com/MBLANKRST_files/RST.jpg

the fork tubes basically. chopper forks into suspension forks anyone?

..Tone..

ONGOING RESEARCH UPDATE:

on a similar note, while experimenting in the top secret R+D
bunker (my back room) i found that you could convert a 1" unthreaded
headset to 1 1/8" threaded head with a hack saw and a hammer.

what you need is a spare set of 1 1/18" forks, some cheap standard
old MTB jobbies should do, CHECK THE INNER DIAMETER! it should
be 25.4mm check on the quill neck for numbers. cut this through below
the bottom bearing cup, it's easy to see where, bear in mind you need
to keep the part for bearing cup fitment, anyways. once this is hacked
you
should have a nice 1 1/8 tube with a bearing cup at one end, check
the cut end and file off any sharp pain inflicting burs, refit this into
the
headset of your frame bearings, cups, nuts, the lot, and then give the
1" stem a slight lube and tap into the inside of the headset until the
base
is flush with the cut tube, you should have plently of new tube above
the threaded nuts at the top to fit your bar clamps and such.

i hope that makes some sense :)

i wondered about this due to lack of 1 1/8" to 1" head set conversion.

to take it further you can also get inserts to convert 1.5" to 1 1/8"
heads
from any half decent bike shop, so technically you should be able to
fit a 1" triple tree fork set to a chunky 1.5" trials frame. well,
that's the
plan anyway. now if those bastards would just stop outbidding me on
ebay -hah-

..Tone..

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