I’ve destroyed so many headsets in the past decade, most of them lower priced needle bearing. I think I may have just been carelessly overtightening them to cure shimmy issues when maybe I should have been following torque specs (which wasn’t really possible since I didn’t have an appropriate torque wrench for years). My new Viscoset says to not torque above 2nm which upon installing made me realize I may be a novice home mechanic headset murderer.
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It’s a bmx headset. Not really any reason to comepletely seal it, especially if it drags during whips and barspins.
This thing was made to be a strong as fuck hs. People were cracking cheap cups left and right. Then BMX made the switch to integrated cups.
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Do either of you have a different front fender situation? Without a fender the rear of the lower cup gets constantly blasted with muck off the tire.
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He actually has the bigger British mudgaurd style thing compared to me.
Now we all know that engineers know how to adjust a headset. What my book presupposes is - maybe they don’t?
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Drop fork,
feel headset
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profit
Sup completely destroyed her lower bearing in her strega in under a year. Like, sealed CC bearing in all sorts of pieces. I only noticed it after an odd clicking noise when I compressed the fork.
Not sure I ever roasted a bearing in my headset that wasn’t years old and through shitty weather. But usually just sell before I care.
new cycletruck, does exactly what I want in the wheel department:
https://www.flux-bike.co/products/no-probllama
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Sundeal thread is that way.
That fork looks… weird.
I’m curious about how (well) the racks are attached, but broadly speaking, I’d like to try a dual 406 cycletruck. There’s no reason to put a 26" on the back if you’re already sourcing BMX parts for the front. Plus it opens up a lot of neat package rack options.
This is a horrible idea that should go to the dithering thread, but I keep thinking: how much would Waltly charge for a Ti cycletruck frame with integrated racks?
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Only one way to find out.
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dare I jinx myself, but i’ve never actually ruined a headset. i’ve mostly had headsets with sealed cartridge bearings and they occasionally needed some grease added, but otherwise i haven’t seen any issues. my mtb headset starts making clicking noises here and there, but the bearings are always fine. it seems like you really gotta go out of your way to wreck a sealed cartridge headset unless there’s a tolerance issue.
loose ball, on the other hand, bit of a different story there I think.
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the ballbarians spec’d on a modern loose ball headset are usually not phenomenal to begin with
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gonna call the old boules longues dudes at the nude beach this now
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my old boss used it and i haven’t been able to stop loving it ever since. and then i heard it over an over again from humans that brought their bikes in to the shop
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Is ballbarian only appropriate for loose/caged bearings? Would you call a cartridge bearing a Carthaginian ballbarian?
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i’ve only heard it for loose/caged balls, but i like where you’re going. true form in my experience is the usually with humans who don’t know that there are balls inside most sealed bearings, and typically don’t own bikes with sealed bearings on them to begin with. generally speaking the only time you hear about them is when there is something wrong with the ballbarians that is borderline dangerous
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If it spins it has barbarians
“Y’all got Roadmaster barbarians?”
“My barbarians fell out”
“which ones?” -me
“just show me some, I’ll know which ones they are”
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I actually did this when i was a noob. Fortunately the bike shop had a very understanding mechanic and worked out what i needed in about a minute.
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