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[Closed] Prince Albert headset, lower stack height, fork/downtube clearance

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A few DB Prince Albert owners here, I'm led to believe.

Need to fit some 426 Air U-Turn Revs (with all the adjuster gubbins on top) to a 15.5" PA frame, and it seems that fork adjuster/downtube clearance [i]may[/i] be a little tight.
Anyone have any suggestions for/experience of headsets that'll allow adequate clearance between fork and frame?
Current fave (Cane Creek S8) with 12.3mm lower stack height looks tight, if my cunning bog-roll mock-up is to be believed. Hope HS looks more promising with 14.1mm. Any good?

Merci bucket, gentlemen...


 
Posted : 18/01/2009 4:33 pm
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my hope worked fine with revs and a PA and with pikes and pa


 
Posted : 18/01/2009 4:44 pm
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FSA with Revs has worked fine,


 
Posted : 18/01/2009 4:46 pm
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Which FSA headset was that?

Currently erring towards Hope: if not for the "best" stack height, then for the whole "Made in England" thing 🙂


 
Posted : 18/01/2009 5:39 pm
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I've got a wtb headset on my 15'5 PA, running the air U-turn revs with no clearence issues.


 
Posted : 18/01/2009 5:44 pm
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I've not heard of anyone having fork dial clearance issues with any headset on a Prince Albert. I suppose it could happen if the lower cup is really shallow and the fork dials are quite high.

But if you want to be "really sure" then a Hope will probably offer the most clearance as their lower cups are quite deep.


 
Posted : 18/01/2009 6:35 pm
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I actually have no clue what model FSA it is 😳 I do have one with a Chris King and that's fine again with rev's


 
Posted : 18/01/2009 7:14 pm