Gravity, with that spoke hole at the top of the rim in your stand not the bottom.
Huge PITA. But hopefully you only need to do it once. Contrast with all the PITA experience with tubeless rim tape issues.
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I am not a patient man for stuff like this (see also why my cabron pub rims are unbuilt)
Fun fact, the Juggalos were protesting directly adjacent to my wedding (Juggalo March - Wikipedia). Nice bunch of clown bros.
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Can you still run normal tubeless tires on tapeless rims as long as you use sealant? The weak link on every tubeless wheel I’ve setup has been the tape, so I could be convinced to build-once-cry-once without tape as long as I’m not stuck with the worse tire selection.
Yes exactly, just use sealant as normal to keep the tire sidewalls sealed up.
better be able to because that’s my plan for cross season
It’s raining at my house, Wednesday
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more “unsolving the threadless headset” in the name of Rinko
plus the bizzarro world of going to Prolly for a sane comments section
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Did you all see the xbiker that pulled a singer mixte out of a dumpster?
Runny Horse
Stack height does not include the last few millimeters of the headset top nut that extend beyond the top of the steerer tube.
Velorange
Stack height is the total height, or thickness, of the headset, not including the parts that fit into the head tube. In other words, it’s the vertical distance required to fit the headset.
Nothing like moving the goal posts. Granted, stack height means fuckall when you’re running a quill anyway.
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Polished silver without anodizing means they’ll oxidize and turn a grey color. he’s insisting it’s a feature but I’m sure it’s really to cut costs.
we’re all living in jan’s world
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the part where he says you need to carry a headset wrench on every ride…wat? i get a bike. i set up the headset once. i never think about it again.
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tell me you don’t rinko without telling me you don’t rinko
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even still you have to bring your headset wrench on every ride?
i guess if you don’t have a threadless headset that you can disassemble with a 5mm allen key, you have to carry one in order to break your bike down to bag it up. never know when the opportunity to pack your bike up will strike
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imagine how much more rinko-ey your bike could be if you un brazed all the tubes and brought a welder with you
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Oh no he really is a true believer in using brushes on an isolated bushing in the headtube to route the taillight wire because his idol started doing it in 1946 and could not possibly have gotten this wrong and been stubborn about it
but modern headsets having repeated layers of bad conductivity is just one of the several broad categories of failures — it also actively conflicts with Rinko, it just adds more connectors buried deeper into less convenient places, and he also keeps redesigning the hardware unsuccessfully
He first tried it on @Hazlewood’s Nobillette bike 15 years ago and the last hardware revision was last year (I think to go with this headset?) Rene Herse Headset Slip Ring – Rene Herse Cycles https://www.renehersecycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Headset_Slip_Ring_Instructions_WEB_20230508.pdf
As a bonus it’s shinier and he gets to do some extra idol worship “René Herse never anodized his cranks” Why René Herse Cranks Aren't Anodized – Rene Herse Cycles
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The threaded headset user can not imagine using one tool to adjust preload and bottle cage bolts.