Tried sawing the XL2 race I removed from my old forks and it doesn’t look that good, think that might be more from the removal than the cutting 🙄

Would prefer to have a split crown race as I change stuff around, so I can either buy another XL2 race and try cutting again but wondered if any other makes of headset come with them as standard?

TIA

hope, latest one anyway.

Hope.

Or just be careful when cutting the other one, use a fine junior hacksaw blade & file it nice and smooth after

Crown race thread to the forum please.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/probably-a-stupid-headset-question

the answer’s in this thread, probably.

Lots of FSA ones do, but I think they need to be pukka aftermarket ones. Hopes defo do.

My Nukeproof one has.

I only buy headsets with a split crown race, like you I like to swap forks around. Mine are a Hope zero stack (I think all Hope Headsets are split CR, as said above) and a Merlin branded headset (as in Merlin Cycles the shop).

I buy the hope crown race from ukbikestore and use it with any headset – like my fsa dh pig pro, works fine n dandy.

you do need to make sure that the crown race angle matches the one on the bearing if you’re going to mix and match (even within the same manufacturer).

Junior hack saw works for me.

you do need to make sure that the crown race angle matches the one on the bearing if you’re going to mix and match (even within the same manufacturer).

You would think so but actually I found this to be not a problem at all..

As Rickos said…I believe the Orbit XLII has a split race, but if its OEM (which some places sell) it comes with an unsplit race.

Yep, Orbit XLII has split race, removed my only recently to fit new forks.

My FSA one did. Hope did, Ritchie and Cane Creek didn’t (and so got cut before fitting)

Cheers all I’ll try with the hacksaw first then have a hunt around if I cock it up again.

my one23 has split race

Got a cheapy integrated from the same firm who distribute Kinesis which has a split race.

Ritchey WCS

Tune BoBo