Tech Tips: BMX Headset Installation and Maintenance 19

Alex_ScaredofFaceplants

4/16/2011 10:06 AM

Somebody pls help me. I did everything you did my fork is Severed Alliance Fork and it has integrated bearing race and im using Colony cane creek headset my frame is WTP reason and when i assemble everything its still shaking. Somebody pls help me

BMX-Canadian

7/1/2012 10:18 PM

Tighten the compression bolt more. That should do the trick.

lurch

6/14/2010 10:08 AM

tighten the compression bolt 1st put your front wheel against a wall or a curb level your stem up with your front tyre and tighten the stem bolt evenly on both bolts then your good to go \m/

herman

6/13/2010 1:55 PM

wtf wont my barings go in my frame?!?!?!?!?!

iBMX dkRidr

6/24/2012 9:04 AM

i probably got the wrong time of headset, look up the frame you have and what kind of headset it is

enkscout

1/6/2010 3:32 PM

omg thanks for this i put my headset on wrong n i couldnt figure it out. thanks tech tips

clyde626

12/1/2009 7:46 AM

where can i get a compression bolt at? i looked on danscomp and i didnt see any. it doesnt really say what headsets come with. if you dont have a compression bolt then how do you tighten your forks/ headset. like a lot of headsets dont come with all the parts.

josephfp

10/22/2009 5:33 PM

brian what happend to your finger

liam kropla

10/22/2009 4:03 PM

that we so sensual when he inserted the fork into the headset full of innuendos in this video

NJ RIDER

10/22/2009 1:21 PM

what if you dont have bolts on the back of your stem, i just have a compression bolt

Josh Perry

10/22/2009 1:10 PM

don`t forget grease haha

keane_str_2112

10/22/2009 9:36 AM

This is how you can tell if it is tight enough.
After you put everything together. Put you bike back on the ground. Turn your bars at 90 degres, left or right. Pull back on your bike, and if you feel a woble in it. Then its too loose!
NEXT!!
After you have tighten eveything down, pick up your bike and spin the bars. It should go around more then 2.5-3times. If it goes around more, then its to loose. If it goes around less, then its too tight!

Alex Bryan

10/22/2009 9:10 AM

brad 93 if you tighten the compression bolt enough to where your headset doesnt woble at all then tighten the side bolts all the way and then tighten the top bolt as hard as you can itll run mint

brad93

10/22/2009 6:48 AM

he didn't say how tight to make the compression bolt. Should it be cranked down, or just enough so that the forks don't move?

EasternRider951

10/21/2009 11:45 PM

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clyde626

9/26/2009 12:02 PM

ok does the headset packages come with a headset race? this cleared ALOT up for me. thanks

matbmx134

7/27/2009 4:03 AM

this has helped me alot

TJ.dougherty

6/8/2009 8:26 PM

these vids help me so much

jackoff

5/11/2009 6:26 PM

brian k is awsome