How to Install an Integrated BMX Headset

All you lot need to know to fit and tighten an integrated headset on a BMX bike

TOOLS Yous Will NEED:

  • HEADSET
  • 6MM ALLEN KEY
  • CLOTH
  • GREASE

Step 1.

Clean the fork steerer, and inside the headtube, so it's dust and dirt free.

Step 2.

Utilize a minor amount of grease where the bearings sit on the inside of the headtube and at the lesser of the fork steerer.

Step iii.

Put the first bearing onto the forks, and then it is sat at the lesser race on the steerer tube. Make sure the bearing is the correct style effectually.

Stride iv.

Slide the fork steerer into the headtube of the frame until the bearing sits flush between the two.

Step 5.

Place the second bearing between the steerer and headtube followed past the compression spacer which should sit inside the bearing, then add together the dust cap.

Step 6.

Identify the stem on the forks and check the fork steerer doesn't accomplish the peak of the stem; if it does add together required spacers. It's important that the steerer is as nearly to the top of the stalk as possible with a maximum 5mm gap. This is so the stem has maximum clamping expanse, but also enough infinite to adjust when tightening the top cap.

Footstep seven.

Screw the top cap into the fork steerer and lightly tighten until at that place is no wobble and the forks spin smoothly and freely. You may notice after tightening the top cap the steerer is at the top of the forks, in this instance you lot will demand to add together some other spacer under the stem.

Stride 8.

Align the stem, and then it is straight with the forepart wheel then tighten the stem bolts.

Step 9.

Check there is no caput rock by turning the handlebars 90 degrees to the frame and rocking it back and forth. If y'all have caput rock, loosen the stem bolts until the stem tin motion on the forks and echo steps 7 and 8.