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Old 08-09-06 | 04:20 PM
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JIS Threadless Headset Woes

Sweet god... my mind is totally blown. I bought a Spicer basic track frame (KHS Flite 100), and have all the parts for my build. I tried setting the race from the cheap headset I had and was very disheartened to find that it would not go on.

I got out the micrometer, and sure enough the fork crown was 27.0 mm wide. This wouldn't be that big a deal if the fork was threaded; Tange still makes JIS threaded headsets. Threadless JIS headsets are another story.

I have searched the internet and found ONE dead ebay auction for a Ritchey WCS threadless headset sized for JIS.

I searched the QBP catalog at my LBS and found nothing...

I'm seriously about ready to just give up and take a file to the fork crown and get the headtube reamed.

Where's the aspirin?
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Old 08-09-06 | 04:47 PM
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Probably should have posted an actual question...

Does anybody know if 1" Threadless JIS headsets exist? Thank you.
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Old 08-09-06 | 04:54 PM
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My MTB is JIS and I was recently looking into options and found a JIS threadless Aheadset at Nashbar

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