Headset Spacers, Do it Yourself?

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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. Black or Aluminum color preferred.

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

Paul Kopit <p.kopit@SPAMverizon.net> wrote:

> 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:

http://www.wicksaircraft.com/catalog/product_cat.php/subid=1828/index.html

> 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

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.

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

Chris Zacho ~ "Your Friendly Neighborhood Wheelman"

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Paul Kopit wrote:
> Does anyone sell spacers cut to length?



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

http://www.coloradocyclist.com/common/products/displayproductlist_v2.cf-
m?&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



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Paul Kopit wrote:
> 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=



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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
http://www.vecchios.com
"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" <msiegel@removecinci.rr.com(remove the remove)> wrote in message
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>

What are everywhere?

> Every decent local bike shop.

Ah, some bicycle part.

> Almost every on line site sells them in various lengths.

Spokes?

>
> 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." <getnews1@dslextreme.com>
wrote:
>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 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
jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:06:53 GMT, "MGS"
<msiegel@removecinci.rr.com(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.

<jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org> wrote in message
news:Atjgc.6387$Fo4.76951@typhoon.sonic.net...
> 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
> jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org


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 wrote:
> <jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org> wrote in message
> news:Atjgc.6387$Fo4.76951@typhoon.sonic.net...
>> 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
>> jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org
>
>
> 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 wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:59:06 GMT, "G.T." <getnews1@dslextreme.com>
> wrote:
>
>>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.

> 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 wrote:
>
>
> 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.

>
> 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
no fucking idea that you were talking about.

> 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" <sorni@bite-me.san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:hflgc.8918$Zi3.4347@twister.socal.rr.com...
> You're an idiot.
>
> Bill "Seeeeee????????????" S.
>
> MGS wrote:
> > <jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org> wrote in message
> > news:Atjgc.6387$Fo4.76951@typhoon.sonic.net...
> >> 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
> >> jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org
> >
> >
> > 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"
<msiegel@removecinci.rr.com(remove the remove)> wrote:

><jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org> wrote in message
>news:Atjgc.6387$Fo4.76951@typhoon.sonic.net...

<snip>
>> 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.

>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.

>On my newsgroup,

Classic.

>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.

>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.

>I for one like top posting.

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

>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."

Certainly, you can continue to post random, useless shit 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"
<msiegel@removecinci.rr.com(remove the remove), impersonating Sorni
wrote:

>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. wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 03:59:39 GMT, "MGS"
> <msiegel@removecinci.rr.com(remove the remove), impersonating Sorni
> wrote:
>
>> 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" <msiegel@removecinci.rr.com(remove the remove)> says:

>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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