following on from here, you can probably guess what it coming:
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-are-my-options-for-120mm-forks
was feeling the need to treat myself, so decided to get rid of my crunchy CaneCack OE headset, and replace it with a nice Hope one.
the can creek one has NEVER seated properly, so i figured they could sort that too.i was convinced it was the headtube. ive had a straight edge on the steerer more times than i care to remember, and its always come up true (in my eyes). so i was pretty convinced the head tube (giant trance) had been faced wrong. Taller at the front than the back.
if that was the case, the bike shop said, they could/would sort it.
Anyhoo. He is convinced its the steerer.
I tried everything to persuade him that it was the headset. From: "its been like that since the frame was new" (i built the bike myself) to: "ive had it apart and measured it all over"
ANYHOO.
i "Forked" out for some new Rebas. 120mm, 20mm maxle, All travel, black box. Very nice. Bargin price of 400 quid thanks Winstanleys. (before you say LBS, the LBS in question "only really has longer travel stuff")
TURNS OUT, my Box fresh Rebas are JUST as bent as my revelations!
either that or....
you get the idea.
So, 400 quid well burnt. and an excess of forks.
I presume it is possible to face a headtube so that the top matches the bottom and im not just being picky....
had they not "fitted the headset anyway" after diagnosing that the headset wasn't the problem. (i could have just swapped the bearings out in the cartridge Canecack one) i may well have spend the 400 quid on a cotic instead...
@ a bit of a loss now. Do I throw good moneys after "bad" and get the headset pushed out, and refaced by a different shop (who may still mess it up)
the whole debarcle came from wanting to straighten the damn thing, so it seems daft to have a new headset, and new forks, which replaced perfectly good prior versions and then NOT have it straight.





