Harry, et al,
Here's a post that I made last year with "approximate" stack heights for common metric headsets.
The stack heights should be the same for inch size headsets too.
My measurements usually differ from those in 2 different Sutherland's Handbooks by up to a few millimeters.
I wonder how people measure stack heights to come up with all the different published dimensions? Do their measurements include the locknut spacers? Are they using rulers or yard stick (meter sticks)? ;-)
I posted this info on Flickr as a rough guide for measuring stack height:
When all else fails there's always the old trick of just replacing the crown race and bottom headset cup. Tange makes a variety of inexpensive headsets with short lower stacks (around 11mm).
They look like a lot of different classic headsets and are usually available with 26.4mm and 27mm fork crown races.
Tange Passage headsets are far better quality than most headsets used on standard bike boom era bikes.
Chas. Colerich Oakland, CA USA
Harry Travis wrote:
> Sutherlands lists the Tange Passage with a stack height of just 30.6mm. Not
> only does the Tange web page list even more headsets than found in
> Sutherlands, but there are on-line retailers which offer a selection of
> them. They're real.
>
> Of course priority should go to your local bricks and mortar bike store.
> Considering the number of shops that can operate today with NO threaded
> headsets on hand, the ones with some would be glad to liquidate
> seldom-requested inventory.
>
> PS Velo-Orange's headsets are all rather tall.
>
> Harry Travis
> Pine Barrens of NJ
> USA
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:35 PM, MNF <emeneff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Euro-Asia Imports has a headset made under the "Star" brand that was VERY
>> short compared to the standard 35-40mm stack heights of the "standard"
>> Campy-Shimeeno road models. Not absolutely sure if they still make a
>> threaded version, but I think they did.
>>
>> Not on-topic, but this might do the trick to SAVE an on-topic frame with a
>> too-short fork.
>>
>> As a last resort I have shaved a coupla millimeters off of the headtube and
>> fork crown race seat. Not what I would have wanted to do at all, but
>> sometimes you have to do what you have to do in order to get someone's
>> franken-bike together.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike Fabian
>> San Francisco, CA