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Old 02-28-08 | 07:03 PM
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Igneous Faction
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Originally Posted by ahand
so i'm thinking about grabbing a pake really soon, and i'd like to stay away from the gross unicrown pake fork, and i decided to get one of the threaded soma lugged 1' fork from universal cycles. i'm just wondering which size i should get. the headtube on the 57cm pake is 150mm and there are three threaded forks with different lengths (http://www.universalcycles.com/shopp...s.php?id=12178). the 150mm one seems like the reasonable choice but i wasn't sure if the threaded headset would add length, therefore requiring me to get the next size fork. any help is appreciated. thanks
You're thinking about putting a 150mm fork in a 150mm head tube and hoping it will work? No. Don't do that.

What's the stack height of your headset? Most threaded headsets have a stack height of 30-40mm. 200mm of steerer tube should be just fine.
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