Another "steerer tube too short" story

[spike3]

The cobalt headsets are flimsy, but one of mine is still working after 200 off road mud miles washed after every 20mile ride with a car petrol station pressure washer

The other cracked whilst being fitted

 

[stevet1]

How would option 2 work?

I think the tube is just long enough to fit a threaded headset. And one of those stems which I creatively called a "retro stem", the ones that go into the steerer tube. It's just not long enough to accomodate the full 40mm of the stem clamp.

:? Is your steerer threaded, or threadless then? I don't think its adviseable to change a threadless steerer into a threaded one, the tube walls are thinner.

 

[tbkih]

I think the tube is just long enough to fit a threaded headset. And one of those stems which I creatively called a "retro stem", the ones that go into the steerer tube. It's just not long enough to accomodate the full 40mm of the stem clamp.

:? Is your steerer threaded, or threadless then? I don't think its adviseable to change a threadless steerer into a threaded one, the tube walls are thinner.

Ooops you're probably right, I don't know what type the steerer is, I thought you could thread into any steerer, the tube walls look about as thick as the ones in an older marzocchi XCR, and that's threaded. (BTW that fork directly withstood a frontal crash that severely bent the frame!)

 

[We_are_Stevo]

I think the tube is just long enough to fit a threaded headset. And one of those stems which I creatively called a "retro stem", the ones that go into the steerer tube. It's just not long enough to accomodate the full 40mm of the stem clamp.

:? Is your steerer threaded, or threadless then? I don't think its adviseable to change a threadless steerer into a threaded one, the tube walls are thinner.

Ooops you're probably right, I don't know what type the steerer is, I thought you could thread into any steerer, the tube walls look about as thick as the ones in an older marzocchi XCR, and that's threaded. (BTW that fork directly withstood a frontal crash that severely bent the frame!)

No problems with extending short threaded steerers and converting to Ahead...

...been doing so for years, as have others on here

 

[MikeD]

The thing that stevet1 is cautious of and the thing that you've never had a problem with are not, I think, the same thing And indeed stevet1 appears to be talking about something other than what the OP is suggesting

 

[Woodentop]

Why not just chop it, sleeve it and extend it ?

 

[We_are_Stevo]

The thing that stevet1 is cautious of and the thing that you've never had a problem with are not, I think, the same thing And indeed stevet1 appears to be talking about something other than what the OP is suggesting

Doh!

That's what happens when browsing late at night after a rather long day on the road...

...reading what you expect to see rather than what is actually there.