Morning all, is there such a thing as a top headset for a 44mm ID frame which has bearings on the outside, like most of the 44mm ID lower races? its a tapered fork, i notice you can get 1.5″ top external bearing jobbies, but i will of course need it for 1 1/8 at the top.

As a lanky geezer i suffer from these fashionable short headtubes, and anything to bulk it up and reduce the giant stack of spacers i need would be good!

i should add – it’s not quite all an aesthetic thing, i often wonder about the fact that the bearing is sat well down the steerer allowing the steerer to flex where a longer head tube and bearings further apart and nearer the stem will be more rigid.

I think you’d have to bodge a 44id external lower cup with a 1.5 top cups top cover and wedge to make it work, not sure if it’d be possible tbh,

yeah i definitely cant find an option off the shelf, hmm

Workscomponents could make you one I’d have thought. On-One slack sets do this, but have an internal lower cup 🙂

cheers brant, can a slack-set be used as a straight headset without adjusting the angle at all? in conjunction with another lower i mean? expensive way to avoid using spacers i know.

P’raps this is a new standard 🙂 44mm both external, bearings further apart, and long people get to use less spacers 🙂

Brant – is the top cup that On One supplied to fix the 16″ carbon 456 short headtube problem not exactly what he needs?

I believe nukeproof do an external lower cup for straight 1 1/8 steerer forks in 44mmheadtubes… I saw it on the cotic site as quite a flush headset when running 44mm headtube with non-tapered forks. Other than the logo being side down, might be possible to invert it for the top?

Brant – is the top cup that On One supplied to fix the 16″ carbon 456 short headtube problem not exactly what he needs?

I think we have a few as samples, PeterPoddy has one, but didn’t fit it, even though it was his feedback that created the process to get them made!

Hi Brant YGM!!! cheers