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Title: headset help again
Post by: weston on November 11, 2005, 06:02 PM

i bought a 1" threaded headset for my old school build, when ive fit it on theres a small gap where the locknut cant reach the tightener, will putting a gyro on solve this gap problem?????

Title: Re: headset help again
Post by: oberonspacefruit on November 11, 2005, 06:05 PM

probably. or a 1" washer. which i have got if u need it.

Title: Re: headset help again
Post by: Rombloke on November 11, 2005, 07:38 PM

Quote from: oberonspacefruit on November 11, 2005, 06:05 PM

probably. or a 1" washer. which i have got if u need it.

when phil says 1" washer he doesnt mean  1" high....


just in case


Dave

Title: Re: headset help again
Post by: oberonspacefruit on November 11, 2005, 07:44 PM

hmm.........is my one inch high washer no good then?

Title: Re: headset help again
Post by: Rombloke on November 11, 2005, 07:53 PM

not if you want your stem not to snap.....which is why in my opinion, you shouldnt fit rotors to 1'' forks.....stems get snaptasticly high when they are installed

Dave

Title: Re: headset help again
Post by: oberonspacefruit on November 11, 2005, 07:54 PM

snaptastic. nice.

Title: Re: headset help again
Post by: theRuler on November 11, 2005, 08:47 PM

you could file down the top few threads off your forks

do this with the big threaded headset bit screwed down - then you can wind it up to clean the threads

Title: Re: headset help again
Post by: dordymush on November 12, 2005, 12:27 AM

the diamond back ones you get from halfords all seem to do this.i took a couple of threads off the forks with an axe saw. seems to have done the job  ;).

Title: Re: headset help again
Post by: motomagII on November 12, 2005, 08:18 AM

axe saw fork chopping sounds good .small washer or 2 is my usual route though .

Title: Re: headset help again
Post by: Rombloke on November 12, 2005, 09:28 AM

i do hope that this is a typo and you fellas mean hack saw.....wtf is an axe saw

lol

Dave

Title: Re: headset help again
Post by: motomagII on November 12, 2005, 09:29 AM

axe on forks would be funny lol

Title: Re: headset help again
Post by: theRuler on November 12, 2005, 11:31 AM

yep use an axe

Title: Re: headset help again
Post by: fLA on December 11, 2007, 03:54 PM

I have a Gyro.. and it won t work properly too.
(I can t fit it properly)

does someone have pictures from a Gyro system fitted, just to see the height of the stem, and if I have to put some "washers" in the headset?

regards,

fLAVIO