Why Chris King Headset

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Why chris king headset. We are proud to be the first manufacturer in the bike industry to meet their rigorous standards and hope that others will follow. The chris king 2nut is basically chris king s high precision take on the classic threaded headset. And it s not bs. King thus managed to maintain production but bearing supply.

The bearing cap is threaded and then there s a lock nut on top of that. Chris king 1 1 8 2nut on the left with a spacer in between the adjusting nut and locknut and the 1 gripnut headset on the right. But 10 years down the line when everyone else has been through a 25 headset every year or a 60 headset ever 2 3 years and you haven t even touched your ck then you ll see why. Why not a chris king headset.

Forty years later the iconic chris king external bearing headset design hasn t actually changed much from the original prototype. The finest greatest performing headset that i have ever owned is also one of the best values the cane creek s 3. 135 on a headset that does not resemble any of the headsets in any of the 6 bikes we have in the shed.