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This is a mudguard bike I built last week, it looks somewhere around the same size as yours but with a better (imo) proportioned headtube length. Not a Hewett though just a cheap £160 Ridley frame although it rides really nice. It cost me more to build the wheels.

[Blah]

Yes, the steerer will be chopped at some point. 

You probably already know this, but pipe cutters do the job very well. If I could be arsed I would link to the thread where this was discussed.

[rogerzilla]

On a £1000 bike, I'll pay the LBS to do it 

[Tewdric]

Ahead stems are ugly and unadjustable.  Yuk.  If ever there was a solution to a problem that didn't exist....

Absolutely.

And don't get me started on integrated headsets and, more recently, press-fit bottom bracket cups. Grrrr!

[Tewdric]

for changing bars, swapping stems etc - Ahead is miles easier. 

Is sir aware of the latest contribution to civilisation - the front-loading quill stem?



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And there's always the quill to ahead converter option. 

I do like headsets that don't spill half your bike on the workshop floor when you take the stem off..

[rogerzilla]

Can you actually find one of those Salsa quills in the UK?  I tried, and failed, a couple of years ago.

[Tewdric]

Nope.  I looked for one for my last threaded steerer project last year and ended up buying a converter instead! 

[Really Ancien]

Has anyone here had the joy of trying to get a siezed quill stem out of a threaded fork, or adjusted one so that it splits the steerer at the threads, I've done both. I've also adjusted an ahead stem up by an inch during a ride, (LEL 2001) I've never cut my steerer down.
But then again my bikes never get photographed.

Damon.