Re: [CR] Purpose of a Track Headset ??

(Example: Racing)

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:13:19 -0800
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20090128004236.6E34119D8D@ug6.ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: [CR] Purpose of a Track Headset ??


Well I don't know why Campy made the Pista HS, but they sure came in handy In The Day, when someone screwed up and cut a steerer a couple of threads too short for an NR Strata HS.

Regards,

Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA


--- On Tue, 1/27/09, donald gillies wrote:


> From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>

\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Purpose of a Track Headset ??

\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 6:42 PM

\r?\n> What is the purpose of a campagnolo track headset ?? I mean

\r?\n> really,

\r?\n> if you want the stack height to be 5 mm lower, why not just

\r?\n> chop off 5

\r?\n> mm from the head tube ?? Are you saying that campagnolo

\r?\n> made a

\r?\n> headset just to create some extra clearance on the

\r?\n> 18.5" framesize and

\r?\n> everyoned adopted it on all frame sizes by mistake ?? Has

\r?\n> anyone else

\r?\n> ever produced a 'track specific' headset? It only

\r?\n> counts as 'track

\r?\n> specific' if you offer a road model as well ... (sorry,

\r?\n> Hatta ...)

\r?\n>

\r?\n> I received a track frame recently with a nuovo record

\r?\n> headset and

\r?\n> campagnolo track BB installed. The catalogue clearly shows

\r?\n> a track

\r?\n> headset installed, but I am wondering if perhaps the nuovo

\r?\n> record

\r?\n> headset might have been the actual original equipment.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> - Don Gillies

\r?\n> San Diego, CA,