Morning all,

After a bit of info regarding headsets and the like. I have had 1 1/8″ steerers and headtubes for ages and the new bike I am looking at comes with a 1.5″ headtube.

So the questions:

I like the idea of tapered steerers, so are there tapered headsets, or do I need to buy a 1.5″ bottom race and some sort of adapter for the top and then a 1 1/8″ top race
I also like the look of the new fork angle adapters – who make sthem and will they work with tapered steerers?

Many thanks

Dave

If you have a 1.5″ headtube, you have a few options. You can run, 1.5″ steerer forks, tapered steerer forks and 1 1/8″ steerer forks. To do this there are headsets available for all.

For example, with my mmmBop (1.5″ headtube) I was planning on running tapered forks. To do this, I was going to use the Superstar T1 headset;

http://superstar.tibolts.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id=426

If you were going to use 1 1/8″ forks on the mmmBop, you could use a step down/ reducer headset, such as;

http://www.stif.co.uk/mtb/product/hope-1-5-stepdown-headset/5317

There are ther companies who do them though…

Hope this helps!

I use this headset in my Prophet to run a set of tapered Revelations. It works very well, and the bearings have been lasting well. 1.5″ headtubes are great to me, because they give you the greatest flexibility: you can run any forks.

I’m afraid I don’t know anything about angle adjusting headsets.