On 01/31/2018 12:34 PM, Brewster Fong wrote:
I think the "advantage" of a threadless headset is in the adjustment. Throw in a face plate stem and you can easily swap stems and bars. But really, how many people do that? So again, it comes back to adjustment. Threadless is so simple and requires what a 5mm hex wrench?!
And yet, many times I've encountered riders on a club ride who had loose headsets -- threadless in all but one case (and he was screwing around with the headset the night before, didn't adjust it right and left the wrench in the car -- and this as we were about 2 hrs into a 4 day tour in South Dakota!) -- and not one of those riders with threadless headsets had any idea how to adjust their headset. Not a one. Being a threaded headset user, I have no idea either, so we'ved asked around and /not one single person on the entire club ride/ -- and they themselves all had threadless headsets -- *ever* had any idea how to adjust one.
So in my book, although there's unquestionably a theoretical advantage there, in practice it's meaningless since nobody seems to know how to do it.
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