Well I had reached a stumbling block in trying to rehab the old Fusion crank forward frame for my wife and I to ride, in that it has a weird stem size/style. Most of the stems I can find were for either 1" threaded, or 1 1/8" unthreaded, and the Fusion takes a stem for 1 1/8" threaded. So I was walking down this alley and I see a wedge nut from a bike stem sitting there, about 18 months ago. I didn't need any wedge nuts, but I'm a sucker for abandoned bike parts so I picked it up and put it in my pocket and put it on the dresser with other small parts I found on the roads. Today I checked it against a chunk of 1" tubing and it didn't fit, so I had a flash and tried it in the Fusion and voila, I have a wedge nut to build a 1 1/8" extended threaded stem. Now all I need is a really long bolt to fit the nut, and something to use as a handlebar clamp.

Does anybody know how long the stem on the original Fusion (with the 20" front wheel) is?