Originally Posted by
Kontact
You sure about that?
1999 Trek catalog image.
That bike wreaks of old men desperately trying not to change. So many people upgraded their whole cockpit from stock for threadless.
Campy and Shimano were mysteriously not on board with threadless. Thus, a lot of new bikes that were equipped with a full grouppo were basically forced into the quill. I’m not sure when they were finally converted, I had a Campy threadless headset in maybe 2003. That absolutely doesn’t mean that threaded was a standard for anyone. I had a Campy lower cup and an A-head top cup to avoid this issue. I knew others that filed the threads off their headset to utilize a threadless fork.
The adoption of threadless was extremely fast and almost everyone was on board. It was one of those things that actually was a massive improvement.