Installing Chris King Baseplate (Crown Race) Help
Hi,
I've searched all over the internet for a couple days, but have not found an answer to this problem, or whether this is a problem at all. I've tried installing this baseplate (Chris King calls their crown race a baseplate) but cannot seem to get it to sit flush with the fork:
It seems the problem is that the baseplate has about a 1 or 2 mm ring around the bottom of the baseplate, as best pictured below:
It seems to be that which is creating the space between the fork and the the baseplate. Is this normal? Is that ring (I'm not really sure what else it is supposed to be called) supposed to sit into some kind of cut in the fork that I need to make? I seemed to follow the steps precisely, but it would seem to me that maybe I keep missing something, or there is some kind of a priori knowledge about forks and headsets that I lack. Thanks.
I've searched all over the internet for a couple days, but have not found an answer to this problem, or whether this is a problem at all. I've tried installing this baseplate (Chris King calls their crown race a baseplate) but cannot seem to get it to sit flush with the fork:
It seems the problem is that the baseplate has about a 1 or 2 mm ring around the bottom of the baseplate, as best pictured below:
It seems to be that which is creating the space between the fork and the the baseplate. Is this normal? Is that ring (I'm not really sure what else it is supposed to be called) supposed to sit into some kind of cut in the fork that I need to make? I seemed to follow the steps precisely, but it would seem to me that maybe I keep missing something, or there is some kind of a priori knowledge about forks and headsets that I lack. Thanks.
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Its upside down..0
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Ha, yup - it's upside down. The Chris King website has a very easy to find list of technical instructions for all their products, and the headset instructions clearly show an installation diagram where that ridge is pointing upward. :oops:0
