Parts Question Thread

iregk

From looking around at a few different threads the same theme comes up now and again. Which part is better, how do you replace this, which wheel set etc... I propose for the new year we have a sticky which parts thread.

Anyone agree?

As a starter the bearings in headset are gone. I took them out for a look and a clean after some not very nice noise following a wet and dirty spin last week. Rather than replace the bearings I'm thinking of upgrading it with a Ritchey set. Having looked it seems they are all 1 1/8". Can anyone tell me if they are all standard fitting for all or most road bikes?

Beasty

iregk wrote: »

I propose for the new year we have a sticky which parts thread.

Anyone agree?

Boards guidelines are no more that 3 stickies per forum (even then on boards mobile I think you can only see the first 2)

We have 2 in the main forum, and "reserve" our third for temporary stickies

Although the guidelines are not strictly enforced, when we asked for the views of forum users earlier in the year there was a very strong preference for the bare minimum in terms of numbers of stickies

Tonyandthewhale

1 1/8 is standard for pretty much all modern road bikes. If it's an old bike with a quill stem and a threaded headset then it's 1 inch. Some fancier bikes have 1 1/5 tapered headsets and the like but they're pretty unusual.

As regards having a sticky. I'd rather have specific threads for whatever comes up rather than one massive sticky where it's impossible to find anything.

Crow92

Tbh If there was to be a sticky (or more just a megathread) I'd prefer to see one purely for bicycle mechanics (inc. compatability issues) that people could go to for advice with bike problems as opposed to which wheelset or groupset to get.

tomasrojo

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

If it's an old bike with a quill stem and a threaded headset then it's 1 inch.

I had two Raleigh hybrids with quill stems and threaded headsets and they were both 1 1/8 inch. Maybe a peculiarity of Raleigh.

iregk

No its a 2008 Be One Storm 2.0 so nothing overly old. Its a winter bike but after a particularly wet and dirty spin there was a fierce noise coming out of the steerer when i moved the bars. Took it apart and the bearings are in a bad way so going to hopefully replace it with a closed bearing system.

Tonyandthewhale

tomasrojo wrote: »

I had two Raleigh hybrids with quill stems and threaded headsets and they were both 1 1/8 inch. Maybe a peculiarity of Raleigh.

Actually, you're right, some threaded headsets are 1 1/8. Forgot about that, it's not just raleigh.

iregk

Anyone got any ideas. Changing the headset from an open bearing cane creek to a closed bearing ritchey unit. Everything is good but for one part that seems welded on. Top of the fork at the steerer tube. It's the part that slotted in with the old bearings.

Won't shift at all and I don't want to damage the fork either by banging at it.