Where to get a headset installed? ( Dublin area )

a.nonymus

Hi there

I've recently bought a frame from PlanetX and I'm looking to get a headset fitted/installed and I guess the steerer tube needs to be cut too.
I'm pretty new to this and from reading up on the net, it needs to be done by a bike shop. ( I was getting some help/advice from a friend previously but I've lost contact with him unfortunately. )
So I'm just wondering if anybody has any recommendations on where to get this done?
I'm assuming this isn't something any bike shop would do or am I wrong?
Also, what kind of price should it cost to do this?

I'm located near the Christ Church area and looking for somewhere that isn't a million miles away hopefully

Thanks in advance.

seamus

Doesn't necessarily need to be done by a bike shop, but if you've never done it yourself and don't have the tools you could make a haymes of it - particularly cutting the steerer tube and fitting the lower cup onto the forks.

Any decent shop should be well able to do it. I don't know what people's experience of cycleways is, but I'd be surprised if they couldn't do it.

Only takes 30mins to do, so shouldn't cost you more than €30 or €40? Haven't had work done in a shop in ages, so don't know what their going rate is.

TinyExplosions

I've done it on 2 Planet X bikes in the past couple of weeks (my own, and Astra Monti's), and would be happy to give you a hand -obviously on the provisio that if something goes wrong, you don't kill me!

I'm just of Meath St

AstraMonti

TinyExplosions wrote: »

I've done it on 2 Planet X bikes in the past couple of weeks (my own, and Astra Monti's), and would be happy to give you a hand -obviously on the provisio that if something goes wrong, you don't kill me!

I'm just of Meath St

You ll do it again today.. new spacers

a.nonymus

Thanks for the reply Seamus, yeah I have no tools or anything of my own and never done an installation before so

TinyExplosions wrote: »

I've done it on 2 Planet X bikes in the past couple of weeks (my own, and Astra Monti's), and would be happy to give you a hand -obviously on the provisio that if something goes wrong, you don't kill me!

I've no tools or anything of my own, so you'd be more than giving me a hand, as I said I'm pretty new to this.

Do you have the tools needed for this?
If so, I can drop over to you.

Chips Lovell

TinyExplosions wrote: »

I've done it on 2 Planet X bikes in the past couple of weeks,,

What are you using to cut the carbon steerers, Tiny?

TinyExplosions

a.nonymus wrote: »

I've no tools or anything of my own, so you'd be more than giving me a hand, as I said I'm pretty new to this.

Do you have the tools needed for this?
If so, I can drop over to you.

Minimal tools needed, and I have them all (hacksaw and a steady hand is really all!)

Drop me a PM and we can sort something out.

TinyExplosions

el tonto wrote: »

What are you using to cut the carbon steerers, Tiny?

Fine bladed hacksaw, used carefully. I have a pipe cutter, but am a little wary of it crushing the tube. Finish off with a file, and Robert's yer aunties husband

Lumen

el tonto wrote: »

What are you using to cut the carbon steerers, Tiny?

These?

Chips Lovell

Lumen wrote: »

These?

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't use my pink tool to cut a steerer.

TinyExplosions

Lumen wrote: »

These?

I want I want I want I want I want

penexpers

Can you press the headset cups in without a headset press?

TinyExplosions

penexpers wrote: »

Can you press the headset cups in without a headset press?

I've not had a problem with mine, or AstraMonti's without one, and AFAIK neither has niceonetom

Chips Lovell

It depends on the headset. Integrated ones don't require a press.

niceonetom

I'm rocking an FSA integrated headset - the bearings just drop in.

theliam

penexpers wrote: »

Can you press the headset cups in without a headset press?

once my frame arrives i was planning on just gently bashing it in with a block of wood between the cup and my hammer

penexpers

el tonto wrote: »

It depends on the headset. Integrated ones don't require a press.

Ahh didn't realise there was a difference.

DirkVoodoo

Yeah I would have thought most road bikes these days use the "aheadset" style headset. Pop the bearings onto the races and away you go. Just be sure to apply plenty of grease!

penexpers

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Yeah I would have thought most road bikes these days use the "aheadset" style headset. Pop the bearings onto the races and away you go. Just be sure to apply plenty of grease!

Ahh I guess my problem is that I don't own any "road bikes".