I have found that you really have to pay attention to the headset stack height. On an older Bridgestone T700 I have, I luckily bought a lower stack height headset and even then I could only get the top nut to thread about 3-4 threads. I had to find a thinner cable guide to even get that much engagement. I've seen a variance of up to 7 or 8 mm on threaded headsets stack height.
~Mike~ On May 9, 10:40 pm, CycloFiend <cyclofi...@earthlink.net> wrote: > on 5/8/10 8:10 PM, Horace at max...@sdf.lonestar.org replied to: > > >> I was looking at this picture of a large custom Rivendell with a tall > >> headset: > > >>http://tinyurl.com/23rzeqm > with > > There is no choice. If you have a tall steerer tube, you need the spacers. > > If > > you want less height, you have to cut the steerer and use fewer spacers. > > There's actually a little more to it than that - This idea of using spacers > on a threaded fork steerer cropped up in a Reader some time back - I think > it was a Mark hack. (And I'm sure others have done it before, but this was > the first time I saw it specifically outlined in print. Certainly, using a > couple short spacers had been SOP.) > > Since the fork is threaded, you are really changing the stack height of the > headset. Before you shorten the extension of the steerer tube, you want make > sure that the threading goes far enough down so you can tighten the top nut, > or plan on having the steerer threaded after cutting it. > > The taller steerer tubes combined with the spacers probably allow a single > fork to be used on more than one frame. When the fashion was to keep the > steerer tube cut to the miminim amount necessary to poke through the headube > of the frame, you pretty much had to have a fork matched to each size. > > - Jim > > -- > Jim Edgar > cyclofi...@earthlink.net > > Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries -http://www.cyclofiend.com > Current Classics - Cross Bikes > Singlespeed - Working Bikes > Workshops of the iBob's > > Send In Your Photos! - Here's how:http://www.cyclofiend.com/guidelines > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
