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I have a Hope tapered headset on my bike. I stripped it down at the weekend to clean and noticed that the top cap has an inset section that looks like it would normally house a rubber O ring/seal next to the steerer of the forks. Should there be a seal here?
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I have swapped forks in this bike so I suppose it is possible it dropped out then.
Which Hope Headset do you have exactly?
Integrated?
Standard?
Also you can look at the instructions on Hope's website?
Um... integrated I think. The cups are mostly inside the frame. I looked at the Hope website but it only seems to have an exploded diagram for the standard sort.
pretty sure mine all have a o-ring in there, to seal it against the steerer
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Edit.
Does it look like this?
Yes, there should be an o ring inside it
The guys are spot on. Top cap is universal and it has an O ring:
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Just looked back and it is a Hope HSC2 top
Searching for that brings up this that also shows an O-ring:
Hopefully Hope can sort me out if I call them. Guessing I dropped it somewhere in the fork transfer a few months ago 😳
If you don't have any luck, local plumbers merchant or B&Q.
Another users pic:
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Ah, those nice people at Hope are going to sort me out 🙂