On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim, > I have a burley tandem with a threadless headset/stem and having to > move it around to get the bars up was a giant pain in the ass. > > I had a bianchi castro valley, same thing, In general, I've found that > since getting a rivendell that headset adjustment and maintenance, > including raising and lowering the bars, give me much less heartburn. > > I'm not pulling the idea of not like threadless from a place of zero > experience with them. I'm coming from my own personal experience and > watching what happens with normal use of a bike for me. >
Oh and let me speak from the other direction, too. I'd be fine with threadless headsets if I could put a quill stem in them and have the whole kit look elegant and finished. I've seen what Sheldon Brown did, by putting a clamp around the steerer tube then shimming a quill stem into it and that while imaginative did not look finished or complete. A headset could be designed such that the steerer is threadless and 9/8' and tightened/finished with a allen-wrench tightened top cap/lock nut. And STILL be possible to fit a quill stem into the whole kit for adjustment AND have it look elegant in the process.; That way mechanics get their wish of being able to work on threadless headsets/steerers and users like me can still adjust the bars up and down w/o having to mess with the whole headset in the process. I'll have to think on it a bit but it sure seems like you would only really need a 'top cap/shim piece that covers the top 40mm of steerer and then either an attached or detached shim to make it all fit together nicely with standard 1" quill stems. So - take what sheldon did, and make it a finished process. I wonder if/how much not having a star nut involved weakens or compromises the system.... -sv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
