Tight spot on headset finally sorted!

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  • Building up my Condor stealth bike for the second time (having been re-painted free by Argos because of defective paint the first time) and have finally got to the bottom of the annoying tight spot it always had on the headset.

    A tip for others here!

    Everything was refaced and pronounced square so I concluded it must be a fault with the NOS campy headset. A call to campyoldy to get another one, and they said "sounds like you've got one too many ball bearings in there". I'd always just fitted as many as would go in (25 in this case) but apparently Campag specify 24, so I took one out top and bottom. Problem fixed!

    Anyone else heard of this? Thought the info might help someone else one day...

    Cheers,

    Simon

  • Anyone else heard of this?

    Frequently made error...much less easy to fix when building a wheel with one too many bearings in the hub!

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