Am I right in saying there's headests available for those wanting to run a forks with a standard 1 1/8th steerer in a tapered headtube frame - such as new Orange 5?
I have the On-One one, it's really good.
LBS is getting me a Hope one which 'should' fit but no promises. Doing a bit of research 1.5 lower cups are different size to tapered lower cups, and Trek E2 tapered is totally different again.
I ran some 2010 Revs 1 1/8th steerer in a tapered Trek headset-
Yours is a cane creek E2 special size job.
your best bet is to get in touch with any shop that deals with Extra (Cane Creek UK importer)
try Cane Creek's excellent "headset finder" on their new website, and it will tell you which parts you need ; they sell the top and bottom cups seperately to suit all the different headset standards that have come into being!
We're recently sourced a couple of Cane Creek headsets from Extra, for customers running taper-steerer forks in different standards of taper head tubes and taper forks in 1.5" head tubes
on the Revs yes, but the steerer on my new Lyriks am tapered m8
Fitted a Hope to a 5 about 2hrs back, uses their tapered headset with a spacer between the crown race/lower bearing.
Right cheers everyone, looks like Cane Creek are doing a good job of making things more simple.