Yeah, the ones that didn't have the weird proprietary HT that only C'dale headsets fit has worlds of possibilities. I recently converted a similar era _(maybe first gen)_ Scalpel using a 1.5" tapered/step down headset I had spare from my PP Prime and put on a 650B X-Fusion Velvet. Hanger was completely broken, so I tried fabricating one myself from an old CPU heat sink and it seemed to be golden, but on the first ride it seem to be flexing, had given up, but then tried some home brew heat treating in hopes that it might stiffen it up - _feels like it just need to find someone to come test ride it again for me, as it's a size Medium, which is more like SM or XS, but it looks sweet_. Even had a set of era appropriate Shimano Octalink cranks and BB for it :-)
March 28, 2022, 11:58 a.m. - Lynx .
Yeah, the ones that didn't have the weird proprietary HT that only C'dale headsets fit has worlds of possibilities. I recently converted a similar era _(maybe first gen)_ Scalpel using a 1.5" tapered/step down headset I had spare from my PP Prime and put on a 650B X-Fusion Velvet. Hanger was completely broken, so I tried fabricating one myself from an old CPU heat sink and it seemed to be golden, but on the first ride it seem to be flexing, had given up, but then tried some home brew heat treating in hopes that it might stiffen it up - _feels like it just need to find someone to come test ride it again for me, as it's a size Medium, which is more like SM or XS, but it looks sweet_. Even had a set of era appropriate Shimano Octalink cranks and BB for it :-)