on 5/8/10 8:10 PM, Horace at max...@sdf.lonestar.org replied to: >> I was looking at this picture of a large custom Rivendell with a tall >> headset: >> >> http://tinyurl.com/23rzeqm with > There is no choice. If you have a tall steerer tube, you need the spacers. If > you want less height, you have to cut the steerer and use fewer spacers.
There's actually a little more to it than that - This idea of using spacers on a threaded fork steerer cropped up in a Reader some time back - I think it was a Mark hack. (And I'm sure others have done it before, but this was the first time I saw it specifically outlined in print. Certainly, using a couple short spacers had been SOP.) Since the fork is threaded, you are really changing the stack height of the headset. Before you shorten the extension of the steerer tube, you want make sure that the threading goes far enough down so you can tighten the top nut, or plan on having the steerer threaded after cutting it. The taller steerer tubes combined with the spacers probably allow a single fork to be used on more than one frame. When the fashion was to keep the steerer tube cut to the miminim amount necessary to poke through the headube of the frame, you pretty much had to have a fork matched to each size. - Jim -- Jim Edgar cyclofi...@earthlink.net Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com Current Classics - Cross Bikes Singlespeed - Working Bikes Workshops of the iBob's Send In Your Photos! - Here's how: http://www.cyclofiend.com/guidelines -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
