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  • Tapered headtube and headset & straight steerer forks…
  • loddrik
    Free Member

    Do I need to buy a new headset or is there some sort of an adaptor I can get?

    jam-bo
    Full Member

    Hope do one. About £8

    loddrik
    Free Member

    will that fit any make of headset?

    goldenwonder
    Free Member

    Yes it will. It presses onto your fork to make the base of the steerer effectively 1.5, then fit the crown race to that.

    boxelder
    Full Member

    I’ve got one you can have for a fiver?

    welshfarmer
    Full Member

    You need a different adapter (or a new bearing) depending on the bottom chamfer angles on the lower bearing. Some are 45 degrees and some are 36 degrees. There may even be others. I think hope use 45 degree and I know FSA use 36 degree lower chamfer bearings. However, adaptors are available for both and if you get the wrong one you can always swap the bearings as I think they all have 45 degree upper chamfer.

    goldenwonder
    Free Member

    The Hope adaptor is square edged to take any crown race, it isn’t tapered & a crown race in its own right.

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