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[mrkawasaki]

Anyone know if it's possible to reduce or sleeve a 1 1/8th headtube down to accept a 1" threaded headset - if so, how or who?

Mr K

 

[Drapoon]

Problemsolvers (from ison distribution) frame shims then use a 1" headset?

or Chris king devolution or cane creek headset (name escapes me) & shim stem if you want to run 1" 1/8th stem

On my Explosif I run 1" threaded forks with a King devolution then I run a shim over the top threaded part & use 1" 1/8th ahead stem, I would have lopped the threaded part of steerer off but would have been too short otherwise, doh

Hope this is some help

Martin

 

[jango]

Yes it is, and I've got the shims to do the job......

Edit: sorry, misread the question. I have shims to fit a 1" stem to a 1"1/8 steerer.

 

[Cass]

Funnily enough I've been looking at doing the same thing, I want to use a 1" quill stem on a Kona frame, I've looked into the Chris King devolution idea, spoke to Bromley Bikes, but this only works with the A-Head system as Chris King do not do the gripnut to fit it, do you think you could just use a 1" grip nut....????

Their suggestion was to run a shim in the head tube, does anyone know if this would work or where to get one made.

 

[Cass]

Just checked on the Chris King web site and you should be able to get a conversion to threaded for the devolution.

http://www.chrisking.com/headsets/hds_devo.html

"Already have a Chris King headset?
Because Chris King headsets share the same cups, a conversion kit is available to transform your current King headset into a Devolution™. We even offer kits to convert a Devolution™ to a NoThreadSet™, a 2Nut™, or a GripNut™. "

 

[Cass]

Even simpler....

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-Pare ... 2mm-insert)-quill-stem-to-1-1-8inch-or-1-1-4inch-threaded-forks-444.htm

 

[mrkawasaki]

Problem shared - problem solved!

Genius - thanks guys!

Mr K