A quick note on the Genetic Cranium headset. It’s a fairly budget priced and reasonable looking alloy headset for 1″ threaded forks. I bought one for the Falcon when building it up but had a few problems.
In a nutshell it’s a rather loose fitting in the headtube when compared to other (steel) headsets I have tried. In the Falcon and subsequently the Ron Kitching it was impossible to set it up so it didn’t move about in the head tube.
In the end I used it on a cheap NOS frame we were building up. The frame had been chromed after the tube was reamed out so the inside diameter was very tight, so tight it proved impossible to fit a brand new Tange Levin headset, which subsequently we fitted to the Ron Kitching instead.
So in a nutshell – avoid the Genetic Cranium. Spend your money on a Tange Levin steel headset instead – for a few pounds more they are beautifully finished, have an incredible reputation for reliability and reek of quality.
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