1" Steerer?

[Judderz]

Looking to buy a 2nd hand frame that takes a 1" steerer fork, just looking on Chain Reaction, and there forks are all 1.1/8" steerers, my question is will these fit, or does it have to categorically be a 1" steerer fork?

Ta in advance.

 

[fossyant]

Nope - you need an old skool 1" fork !

 

[Judderz]

Any idea of any places that do a 1" steerer carbon fork?

 

[Hacienda71]

EBay or you might be lucky at your lbs

 

[accountantpete]

Try eBay but forks with 1" steerers are expensive as are good quality headsets.

 

[Judderz]

Just looking at headsets...as I've never built a bike from scratch...what the difference (fitting wise) between a threaded and threadless headset?

 

[Hacienda71]

The forks are different, if you go threadless you will need to get a star nut fitted with threaded you won't. With both you will need to get the fork crown race fitted.
Threaded tend to have a quill stem or converter while the threadless you use a stem attached around the fork stearer.
That has probably made it no clearer sorry.

 

[Judderz]

Take it a threaded headset screws to the steerer, as a threadless one is more like the modern 'uses spacers and the stem clamps to the steerer above the spacers'?

 

[Hacienda71]

Yep the threaded is compressed and held in place by the screw thread on the stearer while the threadless is compressed via the star nut and the top cap.

 

[fossyant]

You will struggle to get a ahead for 1". It's usually 1 1/8. You can get normal headsets for 1", some dubious quality. My best bike takes Dura Ace - took me some time to get a new cassette bearing one - then ended up with two..... will keep the bike going another 40 years though.

Try and get a cassette bearing headset if you can - you just replace the bearing cassette, not the whole headset !

 

[g00se]

Hi there,

I recently built up a 1" ahead frame and fork for my wife.

For the carbon fork, you may find decent second hand Kinesis carbon threadless forks. For new ones, have a look at Tifosi. There are some decent name brand ones on ebay too (used or NOS) such as Easton and Ritchey.

Tifosi forks

1" ahead headsets are a bit like hens teeth but they are out there. I found a Ritchey one in the odds and sods box at my LBS.

If you have the cash: Campag headset

Some more decent looking ones here.

For the stem, there are some old 1" stems out there, but the best thing will be to get a 1-1/8" stem and a shim to make it fit. This is especially the case if you want to use oversize bars as I don't think you can get 1" oversize stems.

You can get 1" spacers on ebay.

 

[Judderz]

Cheers for the help guys, kinda makes me think it might not be worth getting the frame and building it up...need to weigh it all up first.

 

[g00se]

Just wait until you start trying to match 1-1/8" frames and forks....

External, integrated, semi-integrated, internal headsets; fork crown diameters etc