Crown race cutting service

[russ.will]

The seat on my forks is 27.1mm and the race on the Campag Competition headset is 26.4mm. This seems a common problem from reading around and the number of (expensive!) tools around to suit the job. Too expensive.

Does anybody know of an LBS that can carry out such work as all the ones I've tried around Cambridge seem to know it can be done, but can't do it!

Cheers,

Russ

 

[Pale Rider]

If I've weighed the job up correctly, you could send the fork away to have the race re-sized to fit the headset.

The place I would try is Backyard bike shop in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.

They specialise in high end builds, and Nick, the owner, is by his own admission obsessed by tools.

He told me he has a special Campagnolo bottom bracket tool which cost hundreds, but he's got money back on it over the years by charging other bike shops a fee to do the job.

Certainly worth a phone call.

https://www.backyardbikeshop.com/workshop

 

[si_c]

Definitely worth giving a ring around - it's also worth trying some of the local frame builders as they are more likely to need the tools I would have thought.

I had to get a crown race milled a few years ago, took me a while to find a shop which had the right tool - didn't take them long to do though, but it was the younger mechanic who knew what was needed surprisingly.

 

[russ.will]

Cheers chaps.

Had a Google and came up with The Cycle Clinic a few miles up the road in Glemsford, Suffolk. He knows the problem, has the tools and has done the job on behalf of other shops. I rang him up, liked his attitude, so I'm off over there on Saturday.

Russ

 

[midlife]

Is that Malcolm?

 

[russ.will]

Is that Malcolm?

I think that's his name. Malcolm Borg?

Russ

 

[midlife]

Top bloke . Solved some wheel building problems from the 70's...... Which is where I inhabit lol.

 

[rogerzilla]

I bought the tool. It's had a lot of use cleaning up freshly painted forks, sorting out badly faced factory forks and resizing JIS to ISO (which is the OP's issue).