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Anyone converted 1" forks to 1 1/8 steering tube ?

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ED209:
jus bumped this upped for you mate  :daumenhoch:

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=136475.0

Discostu:
A good link there ed. but monkeybat wanted a conversion the other way round. Old school 1" forks fitting into a mid school 1"1/8th frame. I think it would be good to pick up all the info from both threads and put it under headset conversions. Then it can have a sticky on it. As it does pop up now and again. All the info on all the conversions in one thread.  :daumenhoch:

Dannywhac:
If you need to weld bosses on the forks as well, I'd just hold off till you can find the 1 1/8" forks for it :) Or as a temp measure shim like John suggested to save on having to pee around with h/s cups etc :)

One of the major reasons that we went 1" to 1 1/8" was strength, not that the h/s kept coming loose (beartrap 2 put paid to that). Bigger bearings, larger solid steerer leading to less bends where the forks (cos the forks legs are bigger) meet the steerer etc. Far more likely to rip the headtube off that bend the forks after 1 1/8" :)

Discostu:
This is true the forks were much stronger in 1"1/8th as the stem clamps on to the outside of the stem the fork head tube could be a lot thicker. As it didn't have to have a stem/wedge inside it anymore. A much better system.

On another thought I was told by my local bike shop when I went to buy a headset that soon they are to go bigger than 1"1/8th. This will start happening in the next year or so. That will make things interesting again!  :LolLolLolLol:

Dannywhac:
Nooooooooo ;) It'll be like them early 2000's KHE's all over again (but minus the internal gyro) :

http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/khe_/12544

 :D

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