Headset options

[IDB1]

Well I'm not going to build it up using cheap tat... but I am keeping my eyes open for a hardtail frame in the meantime...
Needs to be a pre-95 bargain though.. not only am I cheapskate, I'm also skint

And what's so nasty about an LTS frame??
My '93 Cinder Cone wasn't exactly built with high-end parts but it was still a decent bike.


Everything's swappable anyway..

Cups are out . . no damage by the look of it..

 

[cyfa2809]

nice one, i recommend putting a smear of grease inside the headtube where cups sit
well as you said build it with decent parts and swap out frame when it comes to it

 

[IDB1]

This will be going together slowly (after doing time for the sacriligeous act of Chris King abuse - if that's the way I go with it. . ).. and I'll be putting the requisite fluids in the correct places..

I had intended to build around my Avalanche frame but I've now finished kidding myself that it'll fit so it's going into 'storage'

 

[cyfa2809]

'storage'

'retrobike storage' - somewhere that contains no viable space for another bike frame yet, man fits all manner of things in supposed 'full' storage

 

[IDB1]

She'll kill me eventually. . . when every cupboard she opens spills out random mtb parts

Although, she did like the wheels that arrived this morning - might let her have them for the voodoo, appease the beast

 

[perry]

i recommend putting a smear of grease inside the headtube where cups sit

I wouldn't , bad engineering principal . If anything use a loctite , but that's only if there is a slight difference in the headtube diameter and cup , ie if the cup pushes in by hand loctite will stop any possible movement .

Chris kings are over rated .

 

[IDB1]

Chris kings are over rated .

Now there's some words of interest. . . I'm just rolling with Chris King for the turning bit and Thomson for the stem and post. . .

Need to know more and also of some worthy alternatives please me ol' china

 

[barry2017]

Hope are nice.

 

[was8v]

Ignore me I just have headset envy!

Steel LTSs were heavier than alloy thats all, and the LTS was overrated IMHO (I rode an FSR BITD when these were around).

I would use the old steerer rather than a screwdriver to knock the old headset out - more "edge" will be in contact which the headset so less chance of damage.

I'm sure it will build up into a cool bike though! Are you gonna fill the dent?

 

[IDB1]

Ignore me I just have headset envy!

Steel LTSs were heavier than alloy thats all, and the LTS was overrated IMHO (I rode an FSR BITD when these were around).

I would use the old steerer rather than a screwdriver to knock the old headset out - more "edge" will be in contact which the headset so less chance of damage.

I'm sure it will build up into a cool bike though! Are you gonna fill the dent?

@ line #1

Yeah, I'll be filling the dent - as much as is possible.. knocked the cups out with a steerer tube thingy I cut off a pair of RST Omni's (who said they were useless )

Planning to get parts together over time, made too many daft purchases and really have to wind my neck in..

It's a real shame that to get the pretty colours you have to pay a premium. . . still on about headsets.

I hope it'll be cool.. quite liked the feel of it before I dismantled it.. because of the dent, though, I may rattle can it rather than powder coat - unless I can get a good deal on powder coating.