Viewing 5 posts - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)
  • Frame builder help please.
  • stevied
    Free Member

    Hi
    I’m making a balance bike for my little girl for Christmas and was wondering if some helpful frame builder may be able to give me the dimensions required for the head tube bores for standard sized head sets?
    I’ll be going with something like this: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/fsa-no-10-internal-headset/rp-prod108136
    So what size/tolerance should I be aiming for for the cup bores?
    Thanks
    Steve

    bencooper
    Free Member

    34mm

    http://sheldonbrown.com/cribsheet-headsets.html

    But best to go slightly undersized and run a reamer through it after the frame is built. You can buy stock head tube material from Ceeway.

    Edit: misread the headset you were using – the FSA website has bearing dimensions I think, but definitely go undersized and find someone units a reamer.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    there’s images of two posters on this page that give the tube dimensions for most of the headset standards available;

    http://www.moredirt.com/stories/FSA-Orbit-Z–Orbit-IS-2-Coloured-Headsets/1806/

    stevied
    Free Member

    Thanks Ben.
    Going to be making it out of aluminium. Will be CNC turning my own head tube, CNC milling the rear stays and doing all the welding myself too.. 😯
    Will get the LBS to ream the bores when everything is finished.

    bencooper
    Free Member

    If you’ve got the kit, go for it 😉

Viewing 5 posts - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

The topic ‘Frame builder help please.’ is closed to new replies.