Conned – Repairing badly gouged steerer that is too loose for a crown race?

WTF!

That is all.

peasnotwar – Member

Shocking!
Needs more pics but first impression was 1.5 forks ground down possibly?
(could that actually be done)?

I take it you've never seen a 1.5" and 1 1/8" steerer side by side? One would fit inside the other! Not possible to grind down to the smaller size

If those were advertised by Allport then i think we all need to think carefully before buying anything that he/she sells in the future, even if that have been advertised for a mate.

And to his mate who sold them on, YOU ARE A FOOKING TOOL.

Selling something in that state is unsafe and unfair, if you **** up a piece of kit through your own stupidity then don't try to pass it onto someone else, throw it away and if you can't do something on your bike then get your LBS or mate who can to do it for you you tight git. If you bought them like that then more fool you for not taking it up with the original seller.

To the OP – if the seller you bought off won't refund you a fair price for replacements then for god's sake replace the steerer/uppers before its too late.

OP – you have mail.

Looks like someone with no mechanical skills whatsoever and access to a grinder has tried to take the crown race off, found its very hard to do so and decided that the problem is "that the steerer is wider than the crown race" so has ground it down in an attempt to get it off, hence why its been ground more near the base. I guess when he has realised whats happened he has sold it on.
Jesus, it always suprises me how dumb some people can be. If he had crashed and died after his botched attempts he would have been in line for a darwin award

Wow.

jesus H christ on a fu*$in bike,they look well dodgy mate. whoever sold them to you should give you your money back, i was looking for some forks , but think i will stay away from the classfieds on here to be honest.

well the crown/steerers of 26 inch reba's fit so finding a donor pair shud be easy, saying that i have a spare set of 29er rebas in bits..may sell

swampi – ygm

Jesus, it always suprises me how dumb some people can be. If he had crashed and died after his botched attempts he would have been in line for a darwin award

So he sold them on to me and if I had crashed and died what award would of it been then?

I'm going to ring the seller later. I've a good mind to tell him that they snapped and I ended up in hospital, and then see what he says.

I'd love to know the logic of how the steerer ended up like that.

Ps. Claiming to sell for another party is the oldest trick in the book to avoid admitting full knowledge later.

Scary what some people think is ok, reminds me of a frame we had in a few years ago, in an attempt to fit a short steerer, they'd hacksawed through the top of the headtube(at about 10 degrees slant).At least they didn't try selling it on though.

I've battered my rebas and the steerer is all smooth like new.

Personally I would not have fitted that fork and sent back straight away.

Classifieds is getting ruined by a few muppets recently.

Classifieds is getting ruined by a few muppets recently.

Disagree. I've had a few incidents over the past year or two. Settled off-forum.

Zaskar-i think from previous posts he bought a bike complete rather than the forks so would not necc have seen the steerer earlier.

If the OP actually ever gets in contact with the seller – Is this going to end up with the seller saying he had also never removed the forks from the frame & also bought it is as an 2nd-hand assembly?

It does make me wonder how people end up going from 'that looks a bit of a tight fit' to 'I know we'll grind the steerer down' without ever thinking 'it can't be that everyone has to do this maybe there's another way to do it?'.

I do hope the OP gets a result on this (and the bike-chain appear to be offering to help) but I'm not hopeful.

Is there no way STW can block user IP's?

That's diabolical, possibly the dodgiest thing I've seen on here.. apart from the welded up Heckler that somebody tried to sell.

Is there no way STW can block user IP's?

I don't think that really helps.

flippin heck. you're gonna need a really big bottle of loctite. 🙂

that's quite staggering. don't know if i'd be angry, or just really thankful that i'd investigated before needing a wheelchair.
hope you can get some redress.

i've never really liked the idea of sh forks unless i knew the seller personally.

Del-(personal experience) I wont buy anymore secondhand forks from STW. Not a chance.

Just to clear things up Allport advertised them for a friend, that's not to say he didn't know about the damage. I met the actually seller and I have now found his phone number so I will be contacting him tonight.
Unfortunately he is 150 miles away so I can't appear on his doorstep.

Where is he – I reckon STW could put together a rent-a-mob 😉

I have bought two forks off here and both were fine.

One collected in persona and the other from a regular poster.

I think that is the key – buy from regular posters and you are fine.

@TandemJeremy

One collected in persona…

Who did you go as? 😀

Oh, I should say that I've bought and sold loads on here (including several sets of sus forks) and not had a problem yet.

here is he – I reckon STW could put together a rent-a-mob

I did think about paying a visit and taking Agency Scum along for a 'talk' 😈

I just don't understand why you would need to angle grind the steerer?

Horrific 😯

THREAD OF THE MONTH!!

The crown race isn't for a 1" steerer is it? I really dont understand how anyone would be so stupid to do that to a pair of forks.
Shame for the OP, hope you get it sorted out.

my fork histroy off STW:

manitou minutes: borked internals
Two sets of bombers: worn bushings, £30 to fix, but still anoying that I seem to buy them a week before they fail.

Off SDH:
manitou minutes: should have learnt my lesson from the fist set

@cheers drive,
if you're up sh1t creek mate I've all the parts for a hard nut hardtail you can borrow for a couple of weeks.

He lives in Rougeley thats not far from me and I have some bombers if you need to borrow them to 'own him'

if you're up sh1t creek mate I've all the parts for a hard nut hardtail you can borrow for a couple of weeks.

Thanks for the offer mate but I've still got the PA and Zesty so it won't stop me riding.

The crown race isn't for a 1" steerer is it? I really dont understand how anyone would be so stupid to do that to a pair of forks.

Hmm sounds like a reasonable theory there !!

Hmm sounds like a reasonable theory there !!

This person shouldnt hold knives, apply for a firearms licence, work with any sort of animal, be in charge of machinery or be allowed off the sunshine bus without a carer or responsible adult present.

Thats an Air Ambulance shout waiting to happen that is.!!!

If he agrees to refund I'd cut them in half before posting, in case the wally tries to sell them on again.

I_Ache…Was that Rougeley or Rugeley ?

Sorry don't get you there hora do you mean the seller or me? ❓ I was also wondering why you would need to angle grind the steerer down – either to fit a crown race thats too small or maybe it was siezed or head set/stem too small? 😐

The seller dummy! 🙄

OK 😉 wasn't clean as you quoted my quote 8)

Wow! That picture beggars belief.