Today I performed the annual service on my Sam Hillborne. This bike was purchased new in the spring of 2012 and has 13,000+ miles. For some reason I've never serviced the Tange cup/cone headset. Well today I did and was surprised how dry it was, Hardly any grease at all. What was there was grey. I'd never seen that before. So I cleaned that out and repacked with a waterproof grease.
So as a heads-up, don't procrastinate, check these bearings. Matt On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 7:45:49 AM UTC-7, Tim wrote: > > How do you know when a headset is worn out? My Hilsen has an Ultegra > headset. The bike was built up in 2011. There seems to be kind of a dead > spot when the wheel is centered up. If you have the wheel centered and move > the handlebars to the left and right, it's like you have to overcome > inertia to get past that spot. The best way I can describe it is it feels a > little like when you swing one of those swinging saloon doors, the way they > kind of pause at dead center. It makes me wonder if the headset needs > replaced. If so, any suggestions as to a good headsets? Thanks! -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
