Submitted by
Rick
a Weekend Warrior
from North Van, Canada
Date Reviewed: 1/2/2005 11:58:00 AM
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| Duration Product Used: |
1 Year |
| Strengths: |
Typical Chris King product. Excellent seals/bearings. |
| Weaknesses: |
A real bugger to install. If the cups extend past the internal flanges in your head tube, you're screwed. There is no way to remove this headset to move it to another frame. |
| Similar Products Tried: |
Chris King no thread head sets in my other two bikes. |
| Bottom Line: |
Great headset does what it's intended for. Good solution for ovalized headtubes however, if you intend transferring it to another frame make sure you'll be able to remove it when the time comes. |
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Submitted by
jeff hollowell
a Downhiller
from sterling hts, mi 48312
Date Reviewed: 1/18/2004 11:56:19 AM
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| Duration Product Used: |
2 Years |
| Price Paid: |
$130 |
| Strengths: |
super strong, good bearings, sealed very well, extremely well machined |
| Weaknesses: |
price |
| Bike Setup: |
02 Azonic Evolution, 02 Marzocchi Dirt jumper, XT discs, Mavic 231, Race Face North Shore DH cranks, Signiture DH BB |
| Bottom Line: |
After a year and a half of riding dirt jumps, street/urban, and mountain cross my the tope tube was ovaled out by .012"(12 thousanths of an inch) but the headset was perfectly round. i haven't needed to shim it or anything it stays tight all the time. so it has saved me from buying a new frame. |
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Submitted by
Chris
a Downhiller
from Australia
Date Reviewed: 12/22/2003 6:41:25 PM
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| Duration Product Used: |
3 months |
| Price Paid: |
$143 |
| Purchased At: |
Cambria |
| Strengths: |
It's strength is it's strength. Pushes an inch into your frame. Gives flared head-tubes new life. Will last longer than any bike. Easy to maintain. |
| Weaknesses: |
Some might say weight and/or price, but if you want to get the strongest headset there is, it's worth it. It's still MUCH cheaper than a new frame (which was a possibility if this didn't work). |
| Similar Products Tried: |
Ringle Slammer Jammer, FSA Pig. Both are now in my parts bin. |
| Bike Setup: |
Mountain Cycle Shockwave, Marzocchi Z1 Drop-offs ( great fork but get the through axle only, see my review), Mavic 321s, Hayes, home-made 34 tooth MRP. Wonderful bike. |
| Bottom Line: |
I have a five year old Mountain Cycle Shockwave, ridden hard. About two years ago I flared the head tube a little and put in a Coke can shim half way around the bottom cup. Like all non-permanent solutions, it eventually failed. I contacted Mountain Cycle for advice and they suggested a Chris King Steelset. Great advice. It took me and two bike mechanics to get it in there, (one of the hardest presses they've done) but it is extremely solid and there are no more creaks. Of course, let me ride it for two years and get back to you, but it saved me thousands on a new frame. I thank the visionary at Chris King that ignored weight and material trends and thought "I'm gonna design the world's strongest headset!" and did it. Huckers, jumpers and DHers, get it! |
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Submitted by
Brandon
a Downhiller
from New York, NY
Date Reviewed: 2/2/2003 1:11:59 PM
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| FavoriteTrail: |
The Next One |
| Duration Product Used: |
6 months |
| Price Paid: |
$150 |
| Purchased At: |
Supergo |
| Strengths: |
Looks awesome, totally bulletproof, 10 year warranty |
| Weaknesses: |
Since the flanges are so huge, either you have to get your headtube reamed (which decreases strength, or buy a frame with an externally machined headtube, which are kinda hard to find, a little heavy. |
| Similar Products Tried: |
FSA Pig |
| Bike Setup: |
Karpiel Apocolypse, Super Monsters, Atomlab Ballistic pedals |
| Bottom Line: |
Thois headset is the best I've ever come across. You will never break this headset no matter what you did. Buy this headset, and forget about your headset forever. |
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