Headset Spacers, Do it Yourself?

Paul Kopit said:

I don't like the stack of spacers to get my stem where I
want it on a threadless HS. I'd prefer a single spacer.
Does anyone know of a size/type of pipe or tubing that can
be cut to length and would work for a 1 1/8" headset

1.25" x .058" wall or 1.375" x .120 wall. Best to cut
the ends on a lathe. You can get the first mentioned
size here:

wicksaircraft.comsubid=Open ↗
1828/index.html

Quoted message said:

Does anyone sell spacers cut to length? I'm looking for 25
or 30 mm.

Your LBS has access to both those sizes in silver, black, or
carbon; cylindrical or conical. Why don't you ask there?

Chalo Colina

Quoted post said:

Originally posted by Paul Kopit
Does anyone sell spacers cut to length?

I came up with 20mm (in carbon) here:

http://www.coloradocyclist.com/common/products/displayproductlist_v2.cfm?&CGRFNBR=603&CRPCGNBR=603&TextMode=0&CI=1,225,487

Or this from Excel Sports:

http://www.excelsports.com/new.asp?page=7&major=1&minor=34

Quoted post said:

Originally posted by Paul Kopit
Does anyone sell spacers cut to length? I'm looking for
25 or 30 mm.

You might come up with the 25 or 30mm here:

http://www.qbike.com/cgi-bin/bike.cgi?ord=p&st=headset+spacers&auct=on&lp=&hp=

Sure. just measure the I.D. (inside diameter) of the spacers
and get matching tubing. You should get the cutting done at
a machine shop, However. A hacksaw and a vise will not
result in the 90=BA cuts you need.

- -

"May you have the wind at your back. And a really low gear
for the hills!"

Chris Zacho ~ "Your Friendly Neighborhood Wheelman"

Chris'Z Corner geocities.comczcornerOpen ↗

Any bike shop worth their salt will have a variety of HS
spacers.....

Peter Chisholm Vecchio's Bicicletteria 1833 Pearl St.
Boulder, CO, 80302
(303)440-3535 vecchios.comvecchios.comOpen ↗ "Ruote convenzionali
costruite eccezionalmente bene"

Every decent local bike shop. Almost every on line site
sells them in various lengths.

Do a net search, you'll find multiple hits.

"MGS" <[email hidden](remove the remove)> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

What are everywhere?

Quoted message said:

Every decent local bike shop.

Ah, some bicycle part.

Quoted message said:

Almost every on line site sells them in various lengths.

Spokes?

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Do a net search, you'll find multiple hits.

We'll find an infinite amount of hits if we don't know what
we're looking for.

Not everyone reads news sorted in threads, you should keep
some of the context, either by leaving the subject alone, or
keeping some relevant content in the body.

Greg

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:59:06 GMT, "G.T." <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Not everyone reads news sorted in threads, you should keep
some of the context, either by leaving the subject alone,
or keeping some relevant content in the body.

I read news sorted by thread, but this post didn't show up
under an existing thread.

Leaving the subject line alone isn't sufficient. Quote
exactly what you're replying to (no more, no less),
preferably directly above each point you make.
--
Rick Onanian

Rick Onanian said:

Quoted message said:

Not everyone reads news sorted in threads, you should
keep some of the context, either by leaving the subject
alone, or keeping some relevant content in the body.

Quoted message said:

I read news sorted by thread, but this post didn't show up
under an existing thread.

Quoted message said:

Leaving the subject line alone isn't sufficient. Quote
exactly what you're replying to (no more, no less),
preferably directly above each point you make.

I think "top responders" and "non-includers" are
incorrigible, not being able to see the logic of showing the
development of a thread (or even that it is a thread) that
leads to the current response. I've seen the defense of "top
responders" over the years and am not encouraged.

This subject line, for instance, is misspelled, but to
respond to it means to leave it stand. Fortunately many of
the "top responders" don't notice spelling anyway so at
least we can see what it is they are talking about... maybe.
In this case it didn't work at all. I have no idea what it
is all about other than failed communication.

Jobst Brandt [email hidden]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:06:53 GMT, "MGS"

(remove the remove) may have said:

Every decent local bike shop. Almost every on line site
sells them in various lengths.

Do a net search, you'll find multiple hits.

Was this supposed to be a riddle?

--
My email address is antispammed; pull WEEDS if replying via e-mail.
Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature.
Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

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Quoted message said:

Rick Onanian said:

Quoted message said:

Not everyone reads news sorted in threads, you should
keep some of the context, either by leaving the subject
alone, or keeping some relevant content in the body.

Quoted message said:

I read news sorted by thread, but this post didn't show
up under an existing thread.

Quoted message said:

Leaving the subject line alone isn't sufficient. Quote
exactly what you're replying to (no more, no less),
preferably directly above each point you make.

I think "top responders" and "non-includers" are
incorrigible, not being able to see the logic of showing
the development of a thread (or even that it is a thread)
that leads to the current response. I've seen the defense
of "top responders" over the years and am not encouraged.

This subject line, for instance, is misspelled, but to
respond to it means to leave it stand. Fortunately many of
the "top responders" don't notice spelling anyway so at
least we can see what it is they are talking about...
maybe. In this case it didn't work at all. I have no idea
what it is all about other than failed communication.

Jobst Brandt [email hidden]

Unfortunately, not everyone delights to the idea of having
to scroll through multiple lines of previously read
information in order to get the information found in a
simple one line response.

On my newsgroup, my posting followed sequentially a rather
lengthy line of posts that all pointed to the fact that
spacers for headsets were easily found at almost any bike
shop or bike listing on the internet.

The succinctness of some posts is what makes them sweet and
to the point.

I for one like top posting.

Call me incorrigible So be it. I've been called worse.

I find others are not unlike lemmings, following those who
appear to dictate the standards of the newsgroups.

And as has been said before, "you're not the boss of me."

You're an idiot.

Bill "Seeeeee????????????" S.

MGS said:

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Quoted message said:

Rick Onanian said:

> Not everyone reads news sorted in threads, you should
> keep some of the context, either by leaving the subject
> alone, or keeping some relevant content in the body.

Quoted message said:

I read news sorted by thread, but this post didn't show
up under an existing thread.

Quoted message said:

Leaving the subject line alone isn't sufficient. Quote
exactly what you're replying to (no more, no less),
preferably directly above each point you make.

I think "top responders" and "non-includers" are
incorrigible, not being able to see the logic of showing
the development of a thread (or even that it is a thread)
that leads to the current response. I've seen the defense
of "top responders" over the years and am not encouraged.

This subject line, for instance, is misspelled, but to
respond to it means to leave it stand. Fortunately many
of the "top responders" don't notice spelling anyway so
at least we can see what it is they are talking about...
maybe. In this case it didn't work at all. I have no idea
what it is all about other than failed communication.

Jobst Brandt [email hidden]

Unfortunately, not everyone delights to the idea of having
to scroll through multiple lines of previously read
information in order to get the information found in a
simple one line response.

On my newsgroup, my posting followed sequentially a rather
lengthy line of posts that all pointed to the fact that
spacers for headsets were easily found at almost any bike
shop or bike listing on the internet.

The succinctness of some posts is what makes them sweet
and to the point.

I for one like top posting.

Call me incorrigible So be it. I've been called worse.

I find others are not unlike lemmings, following those
who appear to dictate the standards of the newsgroups.

And as has been said before, "you're not the boss of me."

Rick Onanian said:

G.T. said:

Not everyone reads news sorted in threads, you should keep
some of the context, either by leaving the subject alone,
or keeping some relevant content in the body.

I read news sorted by thread, but this post didn't show up
under an existing thread.

I switched to threaded view under Mozilla and it showed up
in the right place. But I really just read news in
date/time order.

Quoted message said:

Leaving the subject line alone isn't sufficient. Quote
exactly what you're replying to (no more, no less),
preferably directly above each point you make.

Even better.

Greg

MGS said:

Unfortunately, not everyone delights to the idea of having
to scroll through multiple lines of previously read
information in order to get the information found in a
simple one line response.

Neither do we.

Quoted message said:

On my newsgroup, my posting followed sequentially a rather
lengthy line of posts that all pointed to the fact that
spacers for headsets were easily found at almost any bike
shop or bike listing on the internet.

If the previous posts hadn't replicated to my news server I
would have had

Quoted message said:

The succinctness of some posts is what makes them sweet
and to the point.

I for one like top posting.

Call me incorrigible So be it. I've been called worse.

Jobst is being polite. I'll be polite, too, and leave it at
inconsiderate moron.

Greg

Whoops I'm the idiot

"S o r n i" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

You're an idiot.

Bill "Seeeeee????????????" S.

MGS said:

<[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Rick Onanian writes:

>> Not everyone reads news sorted in threads, you should
>> keep some of the context, either by leaving the
>> subject alone, or keeping some relevant content in
>> the body.

> I read news sorted by thread, but this post didn't
> show up under an existing thread.

> Leaving the subject line alone isn't sufficient. Quote
> exactly what you're replying to (no more, no less),
> preferably directly above each point you make.

I think "top responders" and "non-includers" are
incorrigible, not being able to see the logic of
showing the development of a thread (or even that it is
a thread) that leads to the current response. I've seen
the defense of "top responders" over the years and am
not encouraged.

This subject line, for instance, is misspelled, but to
respond to it means to leave it stand. Fortunately many
of the "top responders" don't notice spelling anyway so
at least we can see what it is they are talking
about... maybe. In this case it didn't work at all. I
have no idea what it is all about other than failed
communication.

Jobst Brandt [email hidden]

Unfortunately, not everyone delights to the idea of
having to scroll through multiple lines of previously
read information in order to get the information found
in a simple one line response.

On my newsgroup, my posting followed sequentially a
rather lengthy line of posts that all pointed to the
fact that spacers for headsets were easily found at
almost any bike shop or bike listing on the internet.

The succinctness of some posts is what makes them sweet
and to the point.

I for one like top posting.

Call me incorrigible So be it. I've been called worse.

I find others are not unlike lemmings, following those
who appear to dictate the standards of the newsgroups.

And as has been said before, "you're not the boss
of me."

begin On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:44:14 GMT, "MGS"

(remove the remove) said:

<[email hidden]> wrote in message
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<snip>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I think "top responders" and "non-includers" are
incorrigible, not being able to see the logic of showing
the development of a thread (or even that it is a thread)
that leads to the current response. I've seen the defense
of "top responders" over the years and am not encouraged.

This subject line, for instance, is misspelled, but to
respond to it means to leave it stand. Fortunately many
of the "top responders" don't notice spelling anyway so
at least we can see what it is they are talking about...
maybe. In this case it didn't work at all. I have no idea
what it is all about other than failed communication.

Quoted message said:

Unfortunately, not everyone delights to the idea of having
to scroll through multiple lines of previously read
information in order to get the information found in a
simple one line response.

If the sole content of a post is a 'simple one line
response' then it is unlikely that it was neccessary to
quote reams of text above it. Extraneous text as well as
signatures can be judiciously removed - the fact that you
are unable or unwilling notwithstanding.

Quoted message said:

On my newsgroup,

Classic.

Quoted message said:

my posting followed sequentially a rather lengthy line of
posts that all pointed to the fact that spacers for
headsets were easily found at almost any bike shop or bike
listing on the internet.

Are you referring to the post which contained some
devastatingly insightful advice about who the hell knows?

"The're everywhere, just do a search

Every decent local bike shop. Almost every on line site
sells them in various lengths.

Do a net search, you'll find multiple hits."

This is some profound stuff, to be sure.

Quoted message said:

The succinctness of some posts is what makes them sweet and
to the point.

To describe your previous post as a 'fart' would be
overwhelmingly generous.

Quoted message said:

I for one like top posting.

It seems illogical to call it top posting when you don't
include any quoted material, no?

Quoted message said:

Call me incorrigible So be it. I've been called worse.

Quoted message said:

I find others are not unlike lemmings, following those who
appear to dictate the standards of the newsgroups.

And as has been said before, "you're not the boss of me."

Certainly, you can continue to post random, useless [censored]
in whatever bizzare fashion you like. I actually prefer
that people who prefer to top post do so, as I then
waste less time scrolling through the voluminous quoted
text and signatures that they refuse to trim in order to
read the simple one line piece of piffle that is almost
always offered.

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 03:59:39 GMT, "MGS"
<[email hidden](remove the remove), impersonating Sorni

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Whoops I'm the idiot

Well, if impersonating someone (including using their email
address) is a violation of Roadrunner's TOS, then I might
have to agree.

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Chris B. said:

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 03:59:39 GMT, "MGS"
<[email hidden](remove the remove),

impersonating Sorni said:

Whoops I'm the idiot

Well, if impersonating someone (including using their
email address) is a violation of Roadrunner's TOS, then I
might have to agree.

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Thanks, Chris. Guess ol' MGS just proved my point.

Bill "the REAL me" S.

So "MGS" <[email hidden](remove the remove)> says:

Quoted message said:

Unfortunately, not everyone delights to the idea of having
to scroll through multiple lines of previously read
information in order to get the information found in a
simple one line response.

On my newsgroup, my posting followed sequentially a rather
lengthy line of posts that all pointed to the fact that
spacers for headsets were easily found at almost any bike
shop or bike listing on the internet.

The succinctness of some posts is what makes them sweet and
to the point.

I for one like top posting.

Call me incorrigible So be it. I've been called worse.

I find others are not unlike lemmings, following those who
appear to dictate the standards of the newsgroups.

And as has been said before, "you're not the boss of me."

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