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Frame / Forks Mismatch?

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extraburner:
Anyone shed any light on this one, I'm attempting my first build (on the cheap:))and haven't owned a bike since I sold my burner in 1988. I have a frame which I'm led to believe is possibly an Ammaco or a Falcon Pro, and have recently bought some MCS forks off Steve on here, and I've bought a DB headset from Halfords. The problem is the forks appear to be too short for the head tube, or am I doing something wrong.

I put it all together , and the forks don't come up high enough to thread the nut on!! See pic:


The head tube is 10cm without headset cups, and the tube at the top of the forks is 11.5cm.

Heres a longer shot of the frame in case anyone can identify it.


Does anyone know of any forks which come up higher?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated....

Cheers

Leon

motomagII:
do a better pic of the forks at the bottom summat looks bit odd there .there are forks with longer headtubes .i belive alans have some lg copies that are longer

bodamus:
Well 10cm so it's a regular 4 inch Headtube so there should be no problem.

Like Greg said can you take a picture of the Forks.

bodamus.

extraburner:
Cheers mate, hows this:

SaMAlex:
Do the forks look like they might have been cut down? (cant think why tho?)

Can you take them to a shop and offer them up againsted some other BMX forks to see if your ones are short?

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