Bought the 2010 Giant Anthem X Advanced SL which has a tapered headtube and FSA integrated headset but want to run my Fox 100 RLT on it and not have to buy a new fork! Ideas?
edit sorry [s]Tapered headset?[/s]
Get an std headset:
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and a reducer:
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yes comes pre-installed with tapered headset, bottom is a 1.5 bearing so i need a crown race that will sit on the 1.5 bearing but reduces down to a 11/8th to take the fork. The top is a 11/8th anyhow so don;t need to touch that.
I think you'll need a new headset bearing from fsa not just a crown race.
sorry as above - you just need a lower reducer to fit into the bottom of the headtube and then you can fit the (in this case a hope) std 1 1/8 bearing in. Oh and as above a new crown race so you'd be best just to get a new std headset and fit a reducer 🙂 (sorry late and I can't type or think!!) 😉
Someone pointed me to this: http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/cane-creek-crown-race-15-to-1-1-8-conv-xxc-id57040.html
but not sure if the race will be compatible with the 1.5 bearing that came with it? I guess if not i could get the bearing and crown race?
foxyrider - no ways do i want to remove the bottom cup to fit a new reducer headset, the thing looks bonded and on a frame that's 2.5K? eeeek
It sits in the frame recess if its integrated rather than semi integrated? You don't need to remove the old one if it is truely integrated as you say it IS bonded in! It just fills in the gap!
So the cup will just drop into the bonded one and then i add a 11/8th bearing and bobs your uncle?
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/headset-to-run-a-standard-fork-with-tapered-frame
http://www.on-one.co.uk/c/q/headsets
Specifically http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/HSHOCOMBI/hope-combi-headset-%28integral--step-down%29
I think that comes with one already built in 🙂
Thanks, so just need the bottom cup which i drop into the integrated section at bottom, bonded bit, and then the bearing to make it 11/8. Ok cant go wrong with hope either
http://www.hopegb.com/voir_combi.html
http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16209531
hope that helps 🙂
YGM - looks like you need the hope reducer headset actually like on theh new carbon on-one bike as you have an integrated headset not an integral 🙂