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Did you purposefully choose a 1" front end or was it just what the frame was available in?
I always wonder what the benefits of that are, and whenever I read about people that want one it usually has to do with looks.
The fact that it holds itself in there with a wedge scares me. It seems like one wrong turn and you're in snappytown.
There may be some other reason that I'm unaware of though.
That rake looks super relaxed and cuuuuushy for the bumps. It seems to have a lot of 90's MTB influence.
There's a reason for the lots of 90's MTB influence. It is either a late eighties or early nineties MTB that has been converted to drop bars and SS/FG. Old bikes used the 1" quil stem for decades. It's a nicely done conversion. I've done a similar, except geared, conversion to a 1986 Diamond Back MTB.