Hi,
I've snapped a frame and looking at my replacement options a relatively cheap 29er cube reaction gtc is looking good.
Problem is I can't figure out what headset I need.
I need a really low stack height as I want to go up a frame size and the steerer on my fork is quite short
Any advice from owners greatly appreciated
Ta
Isn't it an integrated headset?
Yeah. It is, the standard FSA cube one has a 'pointy' top cap that's too much. Looking for the equivalent cane creek or something.
The pointy top cap is (usually) an option part. You can usually get a flat one. Or do without.
Great. Thanks.
https://www.tritoncycles.co.uk/components-c9/headsets-c79/41mm-is-upper-headset-cover-p19452
Something like that.
In fact, a 5 second dig seems to show that the top race is actually an IS41, so that *might* be the right part. Instead of the 10-12mm one that is normally fitted.
Aaaah .that's why I have been struggling. The website says is40!! Not sure that even exists .
It is an integrated headset, but the bearing need to be 45* x 36* (rather than more common 45* x 45*).
FSA/Cane creek make one that fits.
that one on the link is is42 top, I've come to the conclusion the frame is is41 so I'm assuming it wouldn't fit. Have you bought one and fitted it ok?
Sorry not used that, the bearings are the correct ones though.
I butchered parts from 3 headsets I had lying around for my reaction gtc
I was looking for one too and couldn't find one. Bit the bullet and paid £50 for the FSA one from ze Germans.
despite a ton of faffing, i also bit the bullet and ordered the specific one from the germans.....
Having tried a number of stem variations, i now want to reduce the stack of this FSA headset.
As mentiined it has a conical top spacer. Has anyone replaced this with a lower profile item, so i can get my stem lower?
thanks
Beener
Not a friend of the Cube FSA headset.
When buying a low cost Cube frame from bike-discount.de I normally pick a low cost KCNC headset. They are much "shorter" than Cube FSA.
KCNC: no problem with those yet. Not the highest quality (rust on the the "top screw" which adjusts the headset play) - but no real problems so far.
Other low cost Cube frame, straight headtube (older frame): run an "Uberbike" headset with "external lower" bearing to make a tapered fork fit.No issues there. But The Uberbike headset uses quite soft aluminium parts - be careful when pressing them in ...!
I ended up using a cane creek headset which has a lower stack height than the FSA it just needed one shim.