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@eggpie
sorry...I wondered why you were having trouble:)
threaded 1 1/8 headsets arent that hard to find. Think old school mtb. I think theres one outside..The problem is you need a threaded fork. again, think old school mtb/my back yard, but youll be lucky to find a 700c version, so you'd have to thread your existing fork. And if you think its hard finding a shop that will cut a 1" steerer thread,try finding one that even still has a 1 1/8 die.
And then you have to find a 1 1/8 quill stem. Not too hard if you want 80s mtb steel in a range of nasty colours, but youre sol for that njs drop stem. Although if you want to make something really nasty i guess you could use a regular 1" quill and the steerer shim from one of the converters i linked to earlier..
25.4 bars will shim nicely into any 26mm road stem though.Theres even a nitto custom shim for exactly this situation.