Originally Posted by
nlerner
+1 to Stan's suggestion though the first thing I would do would be to press fit the race and see how tight it is. There's some chance you might not have to remove anything.
The original race was on there tight--in fact,
really,
really tight. None of my home mechanic methods sufficed to get it off--I had to take it to the LBS, where they used one of those merciless threaded Park removers on it.
Neal, your reference to Stan's recommendation got me to look back and see that he also mentions removing paint from the steerer. The steerer is in fact painted--all but the threaded portion which was properly masked--but hadn't occurred to me that that paint might pose any problems, and so had no plans to fool with it. Is there something I'm not seeing?