Headset.

[cabbynate]

Has anyone replaced a headset on an SDURO OR ENDURO? From what I have found they are the same size from 2014 on for a tapered fork steering tube. Just no size. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Johneracer]

I installed a Chris king inset 2. That is the correct size for tapered haibike xduro allmountain 6.0. ID of the frame is 44/56mm.
Stock bearing was junk, lots of play, I could feel it no matter how tight. The bearing cup and bearing are not exact fit and the material is very soft. Chris king is a solid piece and solves this 100%

 

[steve_sordy]

On my Focus, I was surprised to find the bearing sizes engraved on the side of the bearing. Once I had those it was just a matter of finding some. Earlier this year someone on here had recommended bearings by “Blue Seal” from www.trailvision.co.uk . They have maximum fill marine grease, strong double rubber seals, and ABEC 2 -Grade 10 balls. My top bearing was £8.99 and the bottom one was £9.99. The website is super friendly and in addition to the sizes and their code number, they give code numbers from a variety of other sources, one of which matched what was on my bearings. I ordered with confidence, standard delivery and got them within two days.

In addition to big 45 degree chamfers on the outer rings, look out for small internal chamfers on the bore of the inner race. I hadn't noticed that they were a design feature, just thought they were a lead-in for the fork steerer. But the helpful info on the website pointed them out and helped to ensure that I bought the correct ones.

 

[TPEHAK]

I replaces stock headset on my 2018 Haibike Xduro Allmtn 6 on Cane Creek 110. I confirm the stock headset on Haibike is really bad, it had not eliminateable freeplay from day 1. What I found the bearings and the cups have wrong chamfers sizes and bearings chamfers do not make contacts with the cups chamfers no matter how hard I tightened the headset. So I decided to replace it.

You basically need to disassemble the headset and see what kind of design it has. Mine has "zero stack" design and I needed to replace the headset on the same design headset. Then measure the top and bottom components sizes, those sizes are standard, google will help you to determine how to measure the headset sizes https://canecreek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/canecreek-shis-poster.pdf .

After this you can start shopping for components and tools. I needed just one cheap bicycle headset cup removal tool (for 1-1/8, 1-1/4, and 1-1/2 inch (32.5 - 56 mm) I found on eBay), a piece of plywood, a hammer and I also designed and 3D printed a special tool to press the headset crown race on the tapered portion of the fork tube. I removed the original cups with the bicycle headset cup removal tool and pressed the new cups with some lube, a piece of plywood and a hammer (I used special technique carefully tapping the new cups with the hammer around the edges thru the piece of plywood to press the new cups into the steering neck tube straight and level).

I installed on my bicycle 110-Series Cane Creek ZS56/40 Black for Bottom portion of the headset and Zs/44/28.6/H8 Black for Top portion of the headset. Cane Creek also sells complete sets top and bottom combos 110 - Cane Creek Cycling Components