Bought a new one the other day and was having a look at today to fit. The crown race supplied is no longer split – have they changed the design, or is it a hacksaw job ?

Dunno, last one I got, a couple of months back (from o-o) had the unsplit design.

Why do you need a split crown race – can’t you just tap it down?

I find a length of plastic waste pipe is ideal

Yep seem to be unsplit now. Last one I got was.

Uplink yes races are easy to fit but trickier to remove and if you swap forks a lot split race is much easier. Oh and I second the waste pipe method.

i’ve had 2 unsplit ones, i just hacksawed them, still work fine

Just hacksaw it. I Do.

yep, hacksaw time. Have spent about 20 mins unsuccessfully trying to remove old non split oem FSA TH 857 one -(.. It will be staying on for those nice chaps at Mojo to remove on Wed when servicing frok…..

The split ring was some-one else’s design,(WTB IIRC) FSA had to stop doing them.

“It will be staying on for those nice chaps at Mojo to remove on Wed when servicing frok…..”

are you getting a new crown steerer assembly? otherwise why do you need to remove it for a service?

Mat –

oem FSA TH 857 one

– original headset is coming off and FSA XL2 going on. I couldn’t be bothered doing it until either the original headset needed replaced or I was sending forks for a service, whichever came fist, in this case the latter -)

I think the Copyright on split crown races belongs to Cane Creek – and there was a bit of a fall-out.