Well...I did have a good LBS(closed now, alas!) run by a good friend of mine do the tapping and facing to install the CK...and I'm sure Rivendell did whatever was necessary to install Chris King headsets for my custom road and mixte... so Matthew...what you said about regrease and readjust is maybe enough
On Friday, April 5, 2024 at 2:42:22 PM UTC-5 Matthew P wrote: > I watched the first 9 min. Thats pretty good for me! I'll return and skip > through the 53 min > > Nice bike! Really a joy to see. > > Possible the headset was just a little tight? Loosen and bit plus > re-grease it and done? I'll watch more to maybe find out :) > > What prompted me to write: I like it "when threads collide" - his tall > stem called upon that other "clem stem" thread going on. > His stem makes pulling it out difficult. It wouldn't be the case if he was > using more of the length and cable lengths set at that. > Not a mistake, but we can see how that tall of a stem maybe causes a > little difficulty for him (quill stem supposed to make adjustments easier, > is one argument) plus the weight (FWIWeighs). > > Great bike though. No complaints overall. I'll return to ingest more of > the vid. > > -Matthew P > San Diego - Kumeyaay Land > > On Friday, April 5, 2024 at 9:45:17 AM UTC-7 Mike Godwin wrote: > >> Man, that looks like my long ago released AR. Right year of construction. >> Mike SLO CA >> >> On Friday, April 5, 2024 at 9:32:53 AM UTC-7 Ryan wrote: >> >>> Ugh...I have a CK headset on my 1997 A/R which is probably suffering >>> from benign neglect...maybe I'm not the only one >>> >>> BikeFarmer Rivendell All-Rounder BIKE CHECK with bonus headset overhaul >>> and head tube facing >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysx21nddMmk&t=53s >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b82eb523-db49-4afe-8205-adacef489348n%40googlegroups.com.
