[Deadpool_merc]

Morning Ladies and Gentleman,

I have a Astrix havoc R which I'm currently resurrecting and have a question.

I'm trying to fit a 888 VF2 Dual crown fork, the bike has e13 reducer cups with hope bearings fitted so is essentially zero stack, the issue I have is the head tube is very short coming in at 115mm and the gap between the upper and lower clamps is pretty big. If I set the top crown flush with the headset its not going to be clamping on the stanchions in the correct place.

Can I run spacers under the upper crown to fill out the gap? It will end up being 30mm or so, is this too much?

If this is a no no would I be better off ditching the e13 reducer and buying a threadless headset like a FSA Pig dh pro which already has the height factored into it?

Cheers and sorry for being long winded hope it makes sense.

 

[Nick]

You can run spaces between the top crown and your headset. Pay attention that headset preload is right.
Swapping the head set is another option.

Get it dialed and post a picture here.

 

[canadmos]

Yeah run it with spacers, it'll be fine.

Turner DHR's had super short head tubes as well, so you either ran the top crown really low or stacked some spacers under it.

 

[Deadpool_merc]

This is as good as I can get it, push the stanchions up they hit the bars. Drop the top crown to here and it still needs spacers but the stanchions don't poke out so much.

 

[WestCoastHucker]

see if you can find someone to trade you for a flat top crown

 

[Deadpool_merc]

see if you can find someone to trade you for a flat top crown

Yeah man that was my other option however I can't seem to find a flat top crown for an old 888 fork there was 1 on ebay a week ago and I missed it ‍