Re: [CR]French and Italian headset compatability

(Example: Framebuilders:Jack Taylor)

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:51:56 -0400
To: marcus.e.helman@gm.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]French and Italian headset compatability


Quoth Marcus Helman:
>I have a French bike with the cool old Campy headset that has the <C> in
>the lower cup. I may want to strip this bike and put the parts on an
>Italian bike. Can any of the headset pieces be used?

The threaded parts won't fit, but everything else should.

There's a table of headset compatibility dimensions in my Bicycle Glossary under "headsets."

http://sheldonbrown.com/glossary

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