Originally Posted by
roadcrankr
I personally do not recall threadless existing twenty-five years ago. Perhaps you replaced the fork along the way?
While it turns out he did replace it along the way there were threadless options 25 years ago, just amazing how long ago things end up being when we think it was only yesterday. I've got a nice lugged steel carrera frameset in the basement I've debated building up, came with a lugged fork crown and 1" threadless steerer, at the time there were options for threaded and threadless carbon as well but I wasn't trusting enough of carbon at the time to pay the extra but knew from enough stems coming lose on old road bikes that threadless was the way to go. Kontact shows a 99 trek 5500 with threaded but in 2000 they came threadless and those started being released in sept of 99, roughly 25 years ago.