Christ bike building twists my mellon sometimes :?
I forgot the Scandal I'm going to put the rigids on has an Angleset and runs a 1&1/8th fork. I'm embarassed to be so ignorant but it was secondhand and wasn't something I'd ever really taken on board / had to work with as it was in when delivered and I just threw the other bits on
. Plan is to take the sus forks off this for new frame and replace with rigids. So, then (bit late) I started thinking about headsets.
New frame is different headset standard to Scandal and doesn't need an Angleset, although it does need an adapter to run the skinny steerer'd forks. I realised I either need to buy a new headset for the Scandal to fit the tapered rigids or ring On One again and ask them to change the order to 1&1/8th steerer version as well as buy a new headset for new frame.
Bloody hell :?
Have decided to save some pennies and change the rigids. Sean at On One was excellent and sorted it no worries. I know sometimes folks bitch about OO but they've been spot on everytime I've had to deal with them (I may have changed another order yesterday
). So, I still haven't moved into the modern age and got some tapered forks
New frame is a Titus Fireline. I have a hard-on for Ti (it's better to be honest than wax lyrical about it
)and liked 29r so much that with the OO sales it seemed a shame not to. Rear tyre clearance is a bugbear but I think it'll be OK.
Scandal will get lightened up with the cheap and easy option of some rigid forks (and then possibly heavied by an Alfine 8).
Tart? Who, me
