Epoch installed

Installed the Gyro friendly GT Epoch headset.

Gyro friendly GT Epoch

Well now that I'll run the Gyro, there is a minor issue using the GT Epoch headset.... the shit don't fit!

The top cap on the standard GT Epoch sits over the upper bearing cup and, as such, is too wide for the Gyro bearings to pass over. So there is a gyro friendly top cap that sits flush with the upper bearing cup...

If only life was that simple... no.

GT in their 1980's wisdom also modified the upper bearing cone ever so slighty so too. Anyway to cut a long story short I finally managed to get a matching Gyro friendly upper cone.

Original GT Epoch cone and top cap: (Race)

Gyro friendly GT Epoch cone and top cap: (Freestyle)

Cone side by side: (Freestyle left /Race right)

Freestyle Epoch top cap on the Race cone: (Large gap)

Race GT Epoch top cap on the Race cone: (As it should be)

Freestyle GT Epoch top cap on the Freestyle cone: (As it should be)

The three top caps together: (White Freestyle left /Chrome Race middle/ Chrome Freestyle right)

And yep I'll be using the white top cap...