Joe Hughes wrote:
Who is geto enough to only own one headset wrench?? I have prepped/built more pro bikes than most people have seen...
Ummm, that's ghetto, Joe. Would the correct answer be ethnic minorities forced into a specific urban area by social or economic pressure, or Europen Jews suffering Nazi tyranny? Either way, your use of the word may not be the most appropriate. I realize that hip teens, twenty somethings, and Real World viewers use ghetto as a synonym for shoddy, and if you fall into this demographic, then mea culpa. Then again, if you do fall into this demographic, I will have to take your claim of having built more pro bikes than most people of seen as the meaningless hyperbole that it is.
Tom Dalton Bethlehem PA USA
do come loose. We used to dremel a slot and then file down the tooth in the washer to fit the minimal slot to keep things adjusted. Many older frames had a slot cut all the way through the steerer tube for the tooth to fit into. Did not hurt anything. The tooth is there for reason. Otherwise Campy headsets would not have a tooth. I used to slap forks in old Bridgeport milling machines and cut a .020 flat if it was lacking or dremel. Still today I see bikes lacking the slot/tooth setup and usually the headset is loose. Dale is correct in his missive concerning this issue. We used to custom file the Super Record teeth as they were so accurate when we had to start stacking the headsets after the Italians did so in about 1980. SR washers were still affordable back then and if you had less than 5 you were questioned. We also did the triple crank on a double SR spindle by whacking the chainstay a tad for extra clearance. Ballpeen action. Again, after some Italians were racing that way. Joe Hughes Denver
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