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'Minor' problem with the road bike, the stem has seized in the forks. It isn't going to come out, so it has been cut and the whole fork removed with stem part still in tube. (Yes, I could try to cut out the seized inner, I will, but I think I should plan for the worst.)
So now I need new forks.
The headset is also 20 years old and there is corrosion on a few of the ball bearings.
It is a 90's Koga Miyata, 58cm frame. The fork steerer measures about 160mm.
Unless there is someone on the forum with a nice, low cost, 1" threaded carbon fork with 160mm steerer, I must give in a convert to threadless.
I don't want to add risers, I want to keep the stem as low as it ever was, roughly what length of steerer should I expect to need on a threadless fork? 170? 180?
I understand the ideal is to cut down to size, but I was hoping for a helpful calculation, so if I buy an already cut fork, it isn't too short.
Thanks.