1" threadless

desweller

Hi guys,

I'm sourcing some bits to build a bike up for my mother to ride to work on. I picked up a cheap and cheerful ladies frame; only (slight) problem is that it's for a 1" headset.

Ideally I'd like to avoid using a threaded headset as I always find I overload the bearing and damage the races (yeah, yeah, perhaps I should just learn not to be so heavy handed).

While I can find plenty of threadless 1" forks and 1" aheadsets, they all seem to be for calliper-type brakes, but I want to use V-brakes on this bike. Does anyone know if there is a 1" threadless steel fork out there with V-brake bosses?

The wheel size is 700C, and I want to be able to use fairly wide tyres - hybrid territory.

Thanks all,

Des

crankycrank

Try Ebay or if all else fails you could contact a framebuilder. Some may already stock the fork you need and may not charge too much. I know Bob Jackson Cycles in Leeds likes to use 1" steerers for some of their off the peg frames.

desweller

Cheers CC, I'll have a look around for some 'builders.

Des

itboffin

DesWeller wrote:

Hi guys,

I'm sourcing some bits to build a bike up for my mother to ride to work on. I picked up a cheap and cheerful ladies frame; only (slight) problem is that it's for a 1" headset.

Ideally I'd like to avoid using a threaded headset as I always find I overload the bearing and damage the races (yeah, yeah, perhaps I should just learn not to be so heavy handed).

While I can find plenty of threadless 1" forks and 1" aheadsets, they all seem to be for calliper-type brakes, but I want to use V-brakes on this bike. Does anyone know if there is a 1" threadless steel fork out there with V-brake bosses?

The wheel size is 700C, and I want to be able to use fairly wide tyres - hybrid territory.

Thanks all,

Des

If you have trouble finding threadless forks you could buy threaded 1" forks and fit a threadless adapter.

this sort of thing http://www.petracycles.co.uk/stem-conve ... 11061.html

desweller

Thanks ITB,

Would that not still require me to set the bearing preload using the headset nut & locknut arrangement?

Cheers,

Des

itboffin

DesWeller wrote:

Thanks ITB,

Would that not still require me to set the bearing preload using the headset nut & locknut arrangement?

Cheers,

Des

It would but it's a little easier, I often mess up my threaded set ups.

Wooliferkins

1" threadless headset? Ask and you shall receive. BBB Turnaround

Wooliferkins

Forks are more problematic. These are nice but will probably be a bit over the top. I run a 25mm tyre through mine, you should get a 28mm but it will be a squeeze with mudguards

desweller

Thanks for all the replies everyone.

Like I say, my problem is not finding a fork with 1" threadless steerer, or a threadless 1" headset, but finding a v-brake compatible fork with a 1" threadless steerer. It's not a biggy though, I can always use a threaded steerer if there's nothing out there, I just have a tendency to damage the bearing races by overtightening :oops:

Des

MacBludgeon

Des, I had similar issue and found that you can buy the Surly Crosscheck forks in a 1" threadless version, these have all the mounts and clearance you could need. I paid £70 at Billy's, I already have a Crosscheck bike and it has V brakes fitted:-

http://www.billys.co.uk/english/group.p ... po82cosov2

oh yeah, I also got the BBB 1" headset from Dotbike, came highly recommended. I have some other BBB stuff and it's been good so far, over 1K miles.

Cranks

1" threadless headsets and threaded these guys can get - I've got a blue one, very nice!

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