Jimalex’s 853 Crust Romanceur

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ectoplasmosis in reply to @jimalex

Stunning build. Agree with the 'arts & crafts' sentiment, respect for dealing with it!

You probably know this already, but your Chris King has a 'GripNut' bearing cover which works differently to a normal two-nut headset and won't work properly with spacers.

You'll have to either chop the steerer to suit and use the upper nut that came with the CK to properly tighten the silver grip collar by way of an internal conical chamfer, or get hold of a CK '2Nut' conversion kit if you're averse to cutting the steerer.

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🅑🅐🅣🅣 in reply to @ectoplasmosis
Doesn't the Gripnut™ top nut have a threaded bit to mate with the top race and clamp the collet to the steerer?

Can't see that in OP's image (though can see what looks like the collet ...).

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ectoplasmosis in reply to @🅑🅐🅣🅣

You’re correct in that the OP has a different, seemingly non-CK top nut which is incompatible with the lower bearing cover that says ‘GripNut’ on it, and the silver collar is visible.

As mentioned, the original CK GripNut-specific top nut is required to make this headset work.

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