I'm normally pretty liberal about safety, but I don't think I'd be comfortable riding with the steering in potential peril. Assuming you could swap everything yourself I would look for a frame. Even a knocked off steering stop can be repaired by a decent welder and then pass safety. Probably cheaper than an insurance deductible and increased rates as a result of a claim.
Broken headstock bearing race lip
Hi all, had a low speed front end collision a couple weeks back and have been rebuilding the bike. Last job was to replace the steerer bearings as they were trashed, but when I dropped the forks out I’ve found that one of the lips that the upper bearing race sits on has been knocked off.
Looking for any ideas for a solution, my first though was to weld the new bearing race into the headstock but steel to aluminium isn’t going to work. Would the new race hold itself in place alone?
If I can’t come up with a solution I’m going to have to go through insurance who will probably write the bike off for frame damage.
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Looking for any ideas for a solution, my first though was to weld the new bearing race into the headstock but steel to aluminium isn’t going to work. Would the new race hold itself in place alone?
If I can’t come up with a solution I’m going to have to go through insurance who will probably write the bike off for frame damage.
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