We wondered what kind of difference high dollar headsets, such as these,might make on bicycles. As with most of the Chris King line you can get these in many different colors, so it is going to look good any way you view it; and what about the titanium model? That is a sexy metal, as far as metals go. Unfortunately, we can't afford to throw down on the Ti unless it is at a critical dampening point like a seat post or stem, but we would like to. A beautiful piece of craftsmanship it is.
Anyhow, we go with the aluminum model that constitutes the majority of Chris King products.
But is there any really perceivable difference besides the beautiful craftsmanship? Actually, no. It feels like any other quality headset we have tried. It is easy to imagine that something feels better about the steering, but in geparison to any other good model, all that is probably in the imagination.
Would we buy another? The answer to that is yes. These have a 10 year warranty and are built to exacting tolerances. We were going through headsets regularly until we switched over to these, and now wewould even bet that this headset will make it over to the next frame.
Even with the tight tolerances we still enclose the bottom part of the headset off with a section of inner tube as this has begee a habit intended to keep the grit from working its way into the bottom half of the headset along with the water which radiates off the front wheel. With this headset though we are considering not worrying about that any more.
They have different kits to make one of their headsets work with most bicycles.
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