Re: [CR]Campagnolo Headset (NR) Race Question....

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:43:42 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Campagnolo Headset (NR) Race Question....
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Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
> Tange Levin or the even less expensive Tange Passage fork races will
> work just fine with a Campy NR HS. There are probably other Tange
> models that work as well. I've used a Tange fork crown race to adapt
> a 26.4 NR headset to a fork with a 27.0 crown race, since the
> Tange's are available in both 26.4 and in 27.0.

I'd be careful with that, as the Levin race is both thinner (7.6mm vs 9.9mm for Campy Record Strada) and ground for a different size bearing (Levin uses 5/32" balls; Campy uses 3/16" balls).

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA