A century of threaded headsets and 25 years of threadless suggest they both work fine. The rest is preference and defense.
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Virgil Staphbeard <vqstaphbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also, the addition of a decaleur or cable hanger in the stack adds to the > loosening potential ,provided they don't have their own locking potential > (i.e. Paul Funky Monkey or Mark Guglielmana decaleur). The locknut fails > to do its job if there is potentially rotating part introduced between > them. > > On Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 11:05:06 AM UTC-4, Grant @ Rivendell wrote: >> >> The "secret" to properly snugging a threaded headset is to use two >> wrenches (in the case of a non-Rinko style). The spanner kind goes on the >> cup flats, and it's really helpful to use the Stein-type (now also made by >> Park) that's chunky and grabs around about 230 degrees and cannot slip. You >> lightly overtighten the cup, then countersqueeze the keyed washer with >> opposing forces on both wrenches. Let me say that if I didn't know exactly >> what all these words meant, it would seem like a hassle, but it is super >> easy. Like anything on a bike or in life, it takes a little practice to >> develop the skill, but so does every mechanical adjustment on your bike. >> Once you have it down, it takes roughly 20 seconds, maximum. The actually >> tightening, 4-5 seconds. >> The PROBLEM is that -- kind of like learning to patch inner tubes or >> remove and reinstall the rear wheel when all you ride is Schwalbe tires -- >> there's not a lot of opportunity to learn. >> >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:59 AM, hugh flynn <hugf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:37 PM masmojo <mas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> ... >>>> Riv, people don't have problems with headsets coming loose!? Wow, I >>>> wonder what their secret is, I've never owned a bike with a quill stem that >>>> didn't eventually need to be tightened. (& I've tried many techniques to >>>> tighten them so they don't come loose). On the other hand I've never had a >>>> threadless come loose. >>> >>> >>> Doubt it's Riv specific but in 40+ years and many 1,000's of miles of >>> cycling with both threadless and threaded headsets, I've never had a >>> problem with either and have yet to perform a field adjustment either on or >>> off road. >>> >>> Hugh "not a big problem for me" Flynn >>> Newburyport, MA >>> >>>> -- >>> Hugh Flynn >>> Newburyport, MA >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to >>> pic/rbw-owners-bunch/bZskFzjF_I4/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/rbw-owners-bunch/bZskFzjF_I4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
