1" or 1 1/8" headset question

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1" or 1 1/8" headset question
sniggletrack
Free Member

I’m looking to run a fork with a 1″ steerer on my Kona Caldera, which used to have a 1 1/8″ headset. I’ve got the 1 1/8″ headset but what do I need to fit the fork? Are there spacers/reducers similar to the ones for 1.5″ to 1 1/8″? Do I need a new 1″ headset and would that fit straight into the Kona’s headtube?
Cheers.

Posted 13 years ago

IA
Full Member

A 1″ headset wouldn’t fit the kona. Reducers probably exist.

But why!? What’s the fork that’s so great you can’t bear to get rid?

Posted 13 years ago

sniggletrack
Free Member

I’m building the bike up into a winter commute/trash bike and one that I don’t mind getting nicked when I go to buy the milk – so it’s being built cheap as chips with whatever I can get! I know it sounds like scrooge but £30 is too much for a disc fork for this project – oh and needs to take 700c wheels too!
Haven’t actually got the fork yet

Posted 13 years ago

ampthill
Full Member

I don’t think that a 1″ fork will be cheap or easy to find….

Posted 13 years ago

warpcow
Free Member

For the cost of headsets and reducers, you could just have one of these:

Ebay linky

I’ve had one on my hack bike for a few months now and it hasn’t spontaneously combusted or anything (yet).

If you hunt around on ebay you can probably find a better overall price/postage ratio too.

Posted 13 years ago

oxym0r0n
Full Member

I think you’ll struggle to run 700c wheels too, unless you get (expensive) adapters or run discs

Posted 13 years ago

ampthill
Full Member

Ebay link

1 1/8 road forks for a tenner. You’ll need road brakes but I’m sure they can be found cheaply

Posted 13 years ago

mustard
Free Member

I seriously abused one of those ebay Mosso forks for a year or so on my singlespeed winter bike and I’m still alive!

Posted 13 years ago