There is a piece that looks a little like a spacer, between the headtube and the first spacer. It’s about 1cm high and made by Cane Creek.
What is this called and can it be eliminated or reduced ?
Is it called a headset ?
Once all spacers are gone can this be reduced or is next step a negative stem ?
It’s the top cap for the headset. You can get one with a much smaller rise. Visit your LBS.
I went through the same ordeal. Even the mechanics at the high-end shops didn’t have a consistent name for it. I always had to point out an example to the mechanic to describe what I meant.
A top-cap refers to the piece above the stem. The headset ‘dust-cover’ is usually a better descriptor.
In any case, the one that comes stock on a p2 is 15mm high. You can get one that’s 5-8mm high. Make sure that it’s an FSA IS-2 low stack dust cover.
The unfortunate problem is that most shops don’t carry extra’s of these and you may have to buy a whole headset just to get the dust cover.
Here’s an example of a large dust cover
Here’s a short dust cover
What year P2 do you have? It may be more trouble then it is worth. If you have the insert glued into the fork to tighten the top cap onto you are going to have some issues since you will have to cut the fork. You could technically put spacers back on the top if you wanted to but that just looks silly.
If you have the insert glued into the fork to tighten the top cap onto you are going to have some issues since you will have to cut the fork. You could technically put spacers back on the top if you wanted to but that just looks silly.
The insert doesn’t really affect one’s ability to cut the fork. Here’s a quote from a Cervelo customer support rep.
http://forums.cervelo.com/forums/p/7291/51690.aspx#51690
“The 3T Funda forks as well as the Cervelo FK26, FK25, FK30, FK30SL all use the same aluminum sleeve inside the steerer to reinforce the steerer in the stem clamping zone. The dealer mentioned here unfortunately has given the wrong information. Shortening these forks in done in the same way as any other an alloy fork with a start nut already installed. First you would tap down the star nut below the cut line and then you would cut the fork. With carbon forks you might want to take care not to splinter outer fibers on the last few mm of the cut. Wrapping tape over the cut line prior to cutting will help hold the fibers tight to the steerer.”
Yeah I know you can do that I have had to before on the the p4 when I was installing it, the inner diameter of the fork actually isn’t big enough for the metal piece if you slam the stem. So you really do have to cut it no matter what. But my point was more along the lines of depending on much shorter he has to cut it you may not have that much to hammer it down into.