Current Projects chat and miscellany

Have finally got my Raleigh Twenty home. I've got a feeling it's going to end up being a major project that drags me into a quagmire for years and years. It looks wicked fun, though. It's also my first project so I get all the fun of vintage builds without knowing a single thing about bikes beforehand!

The forks are mangled after (what looks like) being run over by a car, so those will be the first thing to replace. It looks like it's going to be an interesting challenge as whatever forks go on the thing, they're going to need a longer steerer tube. However long you're thinking, then much longer. Like a giraffe steerer tube. After a bit of googling it seems that the easiest thing to find that would fit and that is also light is a BMX fork but most of the extenders I can find for threadless setups are those hideous clamp-on things that sit on the outside of the tube: http://www.cyclesuk.com/product/Stem_Raiser_2009_GNJ002B?utm_source=merchant&utm_medium=google&utm_campaign=products Honestly? it's ghastly. There's got to be a better option? People seem to be advising going threaded and using a super-long quill, but where the hell do you get super-long quills? Where for that matter would you get a threaded 20" fork in this day and age?

What would you guys do?

lots of threaded bmx NOS forks on ebay usually. I used one for my Raleigh grifter build. You'd maybe have to use the original threaded stem from the twenty though.