moonlite
Kona Fan
So I find myself with a Chinese-made 'Toseek' all-carbon fork which I thought I might use on a slick-tyred urban runabout -- mainly because its uncut steerer is long enough to fit the 2006 Kula Primo frame I have in mind.
But when I started looking at which headset to use, I found that the crown race slips right down to the bottom to the junction with the crown -- where normally you need to apply some force to fit it. I tried a couple of spare crown races that were lying around and all did the same thing. They're actually loose and rattly when in place.
So I broke out the calipers and measured it -- getting a size of 29.2mm. Compare that to the steerer on a Fox fork which comes up at pretty much exactly 30mm. That's a big difference! It's definitely a 1 1/8 in steerer, so what gives?
Do I need a smaller crown race -- if such things exist? Or can I go ahead and use it, relying on the compression from the top cap to keep everything together?
Or could the crown race just be epoxied in place?
But when I started looking at which headset to use, I found that the crown race slips right down to the bottom to the junction with the crown -- where normally you need to apply some force to fit it. I tried a couple of spare crown races that were lying around and all did the same thing. They're actually loose and rattly when in place.
So I broke out the calipers and measured it -- getting a size of 29.2mm. Compare that to the steerer on a Fox fork which comes up at pretty much exactly 30mm. That's a big difference! It's definitely a 1 1/8 in steerer, so what gives?
Do I need a smaller crown race -- if such things exist? Or can I go ahead and use it, relying on the compression from the top cap to keep everything together?
Or could the crown race just be epoxied in place?
It's already on the way. 
