Comments on: How to Adjust a Threadless Headset

By: jack

jack — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:20:11 +0000

i cant believe i found this site i just wanted to tighten my headset and have spent hours googling, and my local bike shop complains about any job you ask them to do. i actually had no idea that i could do this myself with an allen key. this would have helped a lot if i knew it existed when i’ve had to make multiple repairs on my bike on my own. thanks great site

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:38:15 +0000

Hi,

Great website. Your tutorials are very well done.

I was just swapping handle bars between two bikes. I noticed that one of the headsets (threadless) had become loose after the swap. So I cranked down on the top screw hoping that would tighten the headset.

What I did was pull the “guts” of the headset up and now it’s all messed up.

Do I have to buy a new fork? Please advise.

Many thanks,

Jack

By: Vorebreroig

Vorebreroig — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:52:50 +0000

Hi every one, I am brand-new to this site, I have just signed up and the site looks awesome. I am very tech savy so I will be more then delighted to help if a person has any tech-related problems. Anyhow, I am a first time guest who expects to become a regular visitor

Gracias
Vorebreroig

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:04:09 +0000

I don’t think it makes a difference. It all depends on what you are repairing. I’m interested in hearing their reasoning… did they say why?

By: Michie

Michie — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:12:43 +0000

I work for a local bicycle shop. I work on the sales floor, so I am responsible for fitting customers on their bikes, which requires me to do a lot of handlebar stem swapping. I was told by the mechanics to always loosen the two pinch bolts on the stems before loosening the top bolt. They said to always do it in that order, and then to tighten, do it the opposite. Does it really make a difference, or even matter?

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:46:54 +0000

Great info — Thanks!! I was getting ready to take my bike to a shop to fix the play in the headset but your video helped me do it myself.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:29:06 +0000

Hi Rob,

I’ll add your request to the list!

By: rob

rob — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:02:03 +0000

Great site, I have wrecked spacers before when fiddling about here. Any chance of a tutorial on adding spacers?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:22:02 +0000

I can do a threadless overhaul tutorial for sure. I actually was going to do it with this bike (which I borrowed), but when I pulled apart the headset it had sealed bearings, so I made the best of it and made the adjustment video. I’ve got another bike with a loose-bearing threadless headset now, so I’ll be making that one soon!

By: Jocelyn

Jocelyn — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:04:06 +0000

You only show how to adjust a Threadless Headset in this tutorial but what I’d like to know is this:

Do I need to overhaul such a Headset on a regular basis? Just like you show in your other tutorial “How To Overhaul a Threaded Headset”…

Thanks for all your tutorial… It’s helping me out a great deal…

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