correct fork for a pake
 

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

before someone jumps in with the exact measurement-it will most def be longer than the headtube. i made this mistake once (i bought one longer than the headtube, but still not long enough) and couldn't screw on the locknut. too long is better than too short.

so i guess a good bike shop could cut down the 200mm one? or i could just add threaded headset spacers i suppose. thanks for the advice man

That's what she said.

You win.

Thread over.

The Soma 1" fork is threadless. . .
or at least the one you need to go with a Pake.

it comes in both flavors, check the link

I see, I see. . .
cool that they thread some of them
for threaded headsets--
but I think the Pake takes the threadless one. . .
or at least that's the one Soma offers with it.
http://store.somafab.com/pacrtrfr.html

Nice fork, I have one myself.

yeah soma offers the threadless. it happens to be a 1" rather than a 1 1/8", so a threaded works fine on it. i'm partial to threaded, so i was excited to find that.

I got my Pake at Cambridge Bicycle.I went with the Pake Fork ,but they have nice selection of Forks there.Check them out.

i have a 650 fork on mine.

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.

i've been thinking. you should probably just get a geekhouse.

but everyone's doing it, marty will be working till he's 50. im building up this pake till ian starts building frames, then i'm gonna get myself a nice track frame from him.

yeah, he's gonna be super busy. is ian gonna start building his own soon? i was wondering that just the other day.

If the headtube is 150mm, most threaded headsets are around 40mm(some shorter, some taller. check the "stack height" of your headset before you buy the fork). Get a minimum of 190mm threaded fork. If they have a 200mm, get that one and use a 10mm spacer or cut the steerer to fit