My new Leader 735TT bike frame, I806 carbon fork and Cane Creek IS-6 headset came in yesterday. I can't wait to assemble this stuff. Pictures of the frame and fork are at the right of this page.
I unpacked the stuff, and examined it to make sure everything is okay, and that there was no damage cause by UPS. There doesn't appear to be any, except the frame has an indentation on the drive side, directly beneath the part where the front deraileur attaches to the frame. I looked on the Leader Bikes website, and it looks like the frame is supposed to have this indentation, so I'm not going to sweat it. I can't tell if the red & white colored frame (I got the black one) has the same indentation, but it probably does.
So, I read through the stuff that came with the shipment, and it looks like this will be a fairly easy build. That's a good thing, considering I'm a true novice.
The IS-6 headset from Cane Creek is an integrated headset system. Not "pure" or ideal for my tastes, but I'm sure it'll be fine. It does require that the headtube be specially designed to fit Cane Creek integrated headsets. Fortunately, the 735TT has been specifically designed for this type of headset. The head tube comes faced and reamed, and should not require any modification or preparation for installing the headset.
The cool thing about the IS-6 headset is that it doesn't need caps, which means I don't need to use a headset press... good thing, 'cause I don't have one. In addition, the fork crown race looks like it will be installable without a fork crown race tool, because it has a "gap" that should make it possible to seat it properly on the crown of the fork without using the tool. We'll see how that goes.
This should be fun!!!
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