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Bought a new one the other day and was having a look at today to fit. The crown race supplied is no longer split - have they changed the design, or is it a hacksaw job ?
Dunno, last one I got, a couple of months back (from o-o) had the unsplit design.
Why do you need a split crown race - can't you just tap it down?
I find a length of plastic waste pipe is ideal
Yep seem to be unsplit now. Last one I got was.
Uplink yes races are easy to fit but trickier to remove and if you swap forks a lot split race is much easier. Oh and I second the waste pipe method.
i've had 2 unsplit ones, i just hacksawed them, still work fine
Just hacksaw it. I Do.
yep, hacksaw time. Have spent about 20 mins unsuccessfully trying to remove old non split oem FSA TH 857 one -(.. It will be staying on for those nice chaps at Mojo to remove on Wed when servicing frok.....
The split ring was some-one else's design,(WTB IIRC) FSA had to stop doing them.
"[i]It will be staying on for those nice chaps at Mojo to remove on Wed when servicing frok.....[/i]"
are you getting a new crown steerer assembly? otherwise why do you need to remove it for a service?
Mat -
- original headset is coming off and FSA XL2 going on. I couldn't be bothered doing it until either the original headset needed replaced or I was sending forks for a service, whichever came fist, in this case the latter -)oem FSA TH 857 one
I think the Copyright on split crown races belongs to Cane Creek - and there was a bit of a fall-out.