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12-29-11 | 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnDThompson

If you use a shorter headset you can always add spacers to make up the difference. The Levin alloy might work if you left out a spacer, but it would be safer to use a shorter headset

Thanks for the reply

From what you are saying it sounds like you can always add spacers to a headset to make the stack height taller, but you can't always remove them to make it shorter. Is that right?

looking at the picture of the tange levin alloy on rivbike.com it appears to include one spacer included with the headset. So maybe if I removed that spacer, or got a shorter one it would probably work? But can you use actually the levin without any spacer? Or could I just find a thinner spacer? We are really only talking about 1 mm here.

OTOH, can anyone recommend a headset that has a 36.5mm or shorter stack height?

Thanks again

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