Pashley have really jumped the shark !

The fat head tube is only about making a suspension fork an option

Posted by: ampthill

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The fat head tube is only about making a suspension fork an option

44mm headtube not essential, can have tapered with external cups like the Cascade - more elegant when on a thin-tubed frame IMO.

can have tapered with external cups like the Cascade

Then you'd complain it was even more similar : ) 

Yes they could use a  tapered head tube which of course slows for many coming carbon forks too. For me personally this nothing more elegant about the tapered option

But either way its a bodge for a steel frame with a steel fork. The extra diameter just isn’t needed. There was once a good thread on here about it

Posted by: jameso

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can have tapered with external cups like the Cascade

 

Then you'd complain it was even more similar : ) 

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