I do have a Needle-Blaster HS on my Norther-Lyon. The way Garth described it is the way I assembled it. Seems to work fine.
The Steel Race goes between the top of the needle bearings and below the Bottom Cup. The Bottom Cup does not have a race for the needle bearings. Is the lack of a race for needle bearings in the Bottom Cup a design for needle bearing HS or is it particular to the Tange/IRD design. PS the needle bearings work fine in the Norther-Lyon and I have not experienced any shimmy with it: 35mm trail, 52cm frame, 584-38 wheels, thin walled tubing (7-4-7 TT, 8-5-8 DT) John Hawrylak Woodstown Nj On Monday, May 30, 2022 at 5:04:54 AM UTC-4 Garth wrote: > I was gonna buy one too Drew and wondered just that. I had a Stronglight > needle bearing headset way back when and forgot how it went. Based on the > image of the IRD Double Roller Drive yes, that's how the assembly goes. > Crown race on the bottom, bearing over the crown race, steel race on the > top of the bearing, then the bottom cup covers it all7. You likely already > assembled it in hand and noticed if the steel race is placed between the > crown race and the bearing it likely won't roll too great and there would > be a notable gap ! > > https://www.somafabshop.com/web/image/product.image/1068/image? > >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ec11c47c-5a6a-4f50-a16b-b960e6eaab30n%40googlegroups.com.
