"Ed Cory" <
[email protected]> wrote:
>Mark Hickey wrote:
>>That sounds like a Bad Idea [tm], if for no other reason than the
>>larger OD portion of the steer tube that the crown race is driven on
>>to will now be below the crown race (how you gonna install it?).
>
>Yes, until you attach the race to the steerer it won't be
>attached. I wondered if there might be some other reason.
I wouldn't need a reason beyond a loose crown race, personally but
YMMV.
>>Also, you'd be changing the forces acting on the steer tube in a
>>significant way - maybe not enough worry about,
>
>Please define what you mean by "significant" then.
Bigger than "insignificant". Any time you take a part and subject it
to stresses it wasn't designed for, in a way it wasn't intenced to be
used, you should understand what you're asking of the part.
Considering that normally the steer tube is entirely enclosed by the
head tube, and there's no portion of it cantilevered at all, the
change is "significant". What is the magnitude of those stresses? I
dunno, and won't lose sleep over it since I'd never attempt it (I'd
just buy the right fork).
>>but having a section
>>of the steer tube exposed as an unsupported shaft just seems "wrong".
>
>Yeah, I would think that that you or some other dealer
>could offer the OP something less ugly since he can't
>find one.
There are plenty of "suspension corrected" forks out there... they can
be purchased for as little as $30-50.
>The intention would be to have the spacers taking the
>off-steerer axis load so that the would see little of it,
>the 3 percent increase would be if these took none of it.
The spacers won't "take the load" in any way, shape or form. Yes,
they'll support weight, but have no effect on the lateral load. The
steer tube will deflect as much with or without 'em (if you could keep
the fork in the same position either way, that is).
>>Plus, it'd be ugly as sin.
>
>The price you pay to experiment on the cheap.
>
>I also can't imagine how anybody could be seen in public
>with ugly black spacers visible, ugh. Especially since
>they're so obvious below the the head tube instead of
>above it where they are beautiful.
Yep.
Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
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