Good Headset

Quoted message said:

I'm piecing a touring bike together and am wondering about the
quality/durability of the Cane Creek S2 headsets. Looks like a good price
for them. My other bikes have either shimano, king, or campy. This is my
first threadless road bike. Google is giving me mixed signals on the Cane
Creek stuff, however I see quite a few bikes with them. This is a Surly
LHT btw.

They're inexpensive, boring, and work fine. Not the greatest seals in the
world, so a good idea to figure on a yearly (more often in wet weather
riding) cleaning.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

Mike Jacoubowsky said:

Quoted message said:

I'm piecing a touring bike together and am wondering about the
quality/durability of the Cane Creek S2 headsets. Looks like a good price
for them. My other bikes have either shimano, king, or campy. This is my
first threadless road bike. Google is giving me mixed signals on the Cane
Creek stuff, however I see quite a few bikes with them. This is a Surly
LHT btw.

They're inexpensive, boring, and work fine. Not the greatest seals in the
world, so a good idea to figure on a yearly (more often in wet weather
riding) cleaning.

If it's a *proper* touring bike it will have mudguards/fenders, so the
headset will be almost zero maintenance :-)

Zog The Undeniable said:

Mike Jacoubowsky said:

Quoted message said:

I'm piecing a touring bike together and am wondering about the
quality/durability of the Cane Creek S2 headsets. Looks like a good
price for them. My other bikes have either shimano, king, or campy.
This is my first threadless road bike. Google is giving me mixed
signals on the Cane Creek stuff, however I see quite a few bikes with
them. This is a Surly LHT btw.

They're inexpensive, boring, and work fine. Not the greatest seals in
the world, so a good idea to figure on a yearly (more often in wet
weather riding) cleaning.

If it's a *proper* touring bike it will have mudguards/fenders, so the
headset will be almost zero maintenance :-)

It's the Long Haul Trucker, collecting parts for it right now. I'm
already catching [censored] from my riding buddies for wanting to put fenders
on it. However, it did rain today, and myself and probably a bunch of
others avoided today's Vintage bike ride and the unveiling of Brian
Baylis's latest because of it. If I had this LHT built, I would've been
there laughing. 🙂

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Mark Wolfe said:

I'm piecing a touring bike together and am wondering about the
quality/durability of the Cane Creek S2 headsets. Looks like a good
price for them. My other bikes have either shimano, king, or campy.
This is my first threadless road bike. Google is giving me mixed
signals on the Cane Creek stuff, however I see quite a few bikes with
them. This is a Surly LHT btw.

I haven't used the Cane Creek, but I've had a Stronglight Delta on my
tandem for going on 20 years now. If it can handle tandem use for that
long, it ought to be fine on a touring bike.

--

-John ([email hidden])

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:51:35 -0700, Mark Wolfe <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I'm piecing a touring bike together and am wondering about the
quality/durability of the Cane Creek S2 headsets. Looks like a good
price for them. My other bikes have either shimano, king, or campy.
This is my first threadless road bike. Google is giving me mixed
signals on the Cane Creek stuff, however I see quite a few bikes with
them. This is a Surly LHT btw.

It's my experience that many riders who complain about their Cane
Creek headsets (S2, S6, etc.) binding find the problem is gone after
the frame and fork are properly faced.

I like the S2 and S6.

Quoted message said:

It's my experience that many riders who complain about their Cane
Creek headsets (S2, S6, etc.) binding find the problem is gone after
the frame and fork are properly faced.

Sometimes the problem can be with a stem that's not properly faced. We
don't see this very often anymore, but it used to be fairly common (and
rarely diagnosed). We even spent a small fortune on a generally-not-needed
tool that faces stems.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

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On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:51:35 -0700, Mark Wolfe <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I'm piecing a touring bike together and am wondering about the
quality/durability of the Cane Creek S2 headsets. Looks like a good
price for them. My other bikes have either shimano, king, or campy.
This is my first threadless road bike. Google is giving me mixed
signals on the Cane Creek stuff, however I see quite a few bikes with
them. This is a Surly LHT btw.

It's my experience that many riders who complain about their Cane
Creek headsets (S2, S6, etc.) binding find the problem is gone after
the frame and fork are properly faced.

I like the S2 and S6.

"Mark Wolfe" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

If it's a *proper* touring bike it will have mudguards/fenders, so the
headset will be almost zero maintenance :-)

It's the Long Haul Trucker, collecting parts for it right now. I'm
already catching [censored] from my riding buddies for wanting to put fenders
on it. However, it did rain today, and myself and probably a bunch of
others avoided today's Vintage bike ride and the unveiling of Brian
Baylis's latest because of it. If I had this LHT built, I would've been
there laughing. 🙂

After one 3-day rainy tour a couple of years ago I just left my fenders on.
I got a few offhand remarks about them, but I noticed on one winter club
ride last year 4 out of 7 of us were using them. I think a lot of people
think they slow you down, but riding with the same group, over the same
course, on a weekly basis for a few years now, my "before & after" says
they don't. The only downside of fenders is you have to be vigilant about
riding over any debris that could get picked up & jam them. I now have
full-time, full-length fenders on 3 bikes, rear fender on a 4th; the only
bike I don't have them on is my MTB. I hate getting sprayed in the winter,
the water isn't so bad in the warm months, but the grit really sucks. I
would often get home covered with it.

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Peter Cole said:

"Mark Wolfe" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

If it's a *proper* touring bike it will have mudguards/fenders, so the
headset will be almost zero maintenance :-)

It's the Long Haul Trucker, collecting parts for it right now. I'm
already catching [censored] from my riding buddies for wanting to put fenders
on it. However, it did rain today, and myself and probably a bunch of
others avoided today's Vintage bike ride and the unveiling of Brian
Baylis's latest because of it. If I had this LHT built, I would've been
there laughing. 🙂

After one 3-day rainy tour a couple of years ago I just left my fenders on.
I got a few offhand remarks about them, but I noticed on one winter club
ride last year 4 out of 7 of us were using them. I think a lot of people
think they slow you down, but riding with the same group, over the same
course, on a weekly basis for a few years now, my "before & after" says
they don't. The only downside of fenders is you have to be vigilant about
riding over any debris that could get picked up & jam them. I now have
full-time, full-length fenders on 3 bikes, rear fender on a 4th; the only
bike I don't have them on is my MTB. I hate getting sprayed in the winter,
the water isn't so bad in the warm months, but the grit really sucks. I
would often get home covered with it.

My club has a weekly Saturday morning ride in Vancouver. It's
fenders-mandatory (loosely enforced: no fenders means you ride at the
back) from when the weather turns wet (about the start of October) until
the weather turns dry (um, April? May? Never?).

Not just fenders are expected: a low-hanging mudflap on the rear fender
is considered part of the standard, and front flaps are just common
sense. The most popular extension is a halved water bottle.

Some riders use those funky SKS race fenders, which are quick-on and
quick-off, a boon for racers with only one road bike. But they don't
cover ahead of the fork or ahead of the rear seat stays, and that makes
a difference.

But our club-run Spring racing Series in April is fenders-forbidden.
Just one more piece of mess to hurt people is the theory, I suppose.

--
Ryan Cousineau, [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com
Verus de parvis; verus de magnis.