I have acquired the bike in the pictures. It's knocking on a bit and the paint is very tatty but it has a chrome moly frame and is very light - quite a bit lighter than my alloy-framed hybrid.
The brakes and gears work fine, all the bearings are nice and smooth, and the tyres and saddle are in good nick so I'm thinking of giving it a quick flash over with matt black from poundland and using it for light weekend off-road work with the kids that the road tyres on my hybrid struggle with.
The only issue I have is with the stem which is threadless but appears to have a part missing. My only experience of these set-ups is on my son's scooter and that is a mish-mash of threaded forks and .
Can anyone tell me what is missing, whether a generic threadless headset would replace it, and most importantly, how it comes apart?
The brakes and gears work fine, all the bearings are nice and smooth, and the tyres and saddle are in good nick so I'm thinking of giving it a quick flash over with matt black from poundland and using it for light weekend off-road work with the kids that the road tyres on my hybrid struggle with.
The only issue I have is with the stem which is threadless but appears to have a part missing. My only experience of these set-ups is on my son's scooter and that is a mish-mash of threaded forks and .
Can anyone tell me what is missing, whether a generic threadless headset would replace it, and most importantly, how it comes apart?