[Closed] Works components angle sets - bit pricey now

Bloody hell so they have. I've been in contact with the guy asking some questions last week, I will raise it with him, never know he may offer it at yesterdays price.

Have tweeted them too (so modern!) - know the one I want, just feel a bit fleeced at paying 13 quid more all of a sudden.
Let me know how you get on!

They've always been 80, there was a 15% discount over the xmas period.

I'm waiting to see what superstar come up with, can't get a release date out of them though

dam should have bought one last week, still should make selling the one off my not getting used frame easier ha ha ha ha

Strange way of doing business - never saw any mention of discount, none obviously on the website, or on their FB or Twitter. Not complaining, just saying.

I'm pretty sure the ones I bought 6 months ago were £80 each.

I'm waiting to see what superstar come up with, can't get a release date out of them though

Pretty sure I saw a FB post about an Xmas discount

dickyhepburn - Member

Strange way of doing business - never saw any mention of discount, none obviously on the website, or on their FB or Twitter

It was (and still is) on their facebook.

So anyway, I had a look on wayback. When I got my first one, in 2010, they were £75. By 2013 they'd soared to £75. Then a while back some new products reached the dizzying heights of £79.99, which came as a shock when I bought my 3rd one.

But this latest hike to £81.99 is madness. I mean, taking into account inflation that's an increase of, uh... minus £7!

I don't use Facebook.
Feel a bit of a tit for raising it now with them, didn't realise they were a one man band.
Nice company writeup on pb.
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I think overall they're worth £80 but for that money, would have expected a stainless top cap bolt. If you buy a 2-deg set, can you adjust it to be less of an angle or not?

Nope. Try the 1.5 deg?

Yeah, they're not adjustable. If you get the full Cane Creek kit it comes with the different gimbals so you can adjust it between .5 and 1.5 but it's about £150 and doesn't do 2.0.

Honestly never fitted a 2.0 and thought "that's a bit much" though. It's not a big change from 1.5 to 2.0 but on [i]some[/i] frames it's a big change from 0 to 2.

(not always btw; my Hemlock, it was gamechanging, it wasn't so much "68 to 66", it was "too steep" to "slack enough". Same with the C456, turned it from "mediocre and uninspiring" to "does one thing well" which is a big change. Both times it was a frame saver basically, way more than "oh this is a little bit slacker")

But in my trailfox, it's just a bonus, it really does feel "just a wee bit slacker" rather than "now the frame works" and that's really a lot different in result even though the change itself is the same. Does that make sense? The numbers aren't what's important, basically.

Go for the -2 unless your bike is already pretty slack. I wish I'd gone for more than a -1 when I got one as 64* is good but fancy making it slacker to see how it goes.

They were about £80 before Xmas when I looked

Tom KP

Well mines arrived this morning & I'm confused.
The bottom one is clear with the offset, its stamped 2 though which makes me wonder if its a 2 degree one rather than the 1 degree I ordered.
The top one looks like it has no offset, its stamped with a 1 though. Anyone fitted one before who can offer any help before I contact them ?

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They are machined differently depending on your headtube length. if you fit one ment for a 135mm head tube onto a 90mm head tube you will get more than the advertised change in angle. So for your headtube length those cups will maybe give you the angle you require

I wouldn't fit ones for the wrong length head tube - that'll make the bearings squint. Non-concentric is the word I'm looking for I think.

acorrding the email I got from works it would be fine. they don't do one for the headtube on my son's bike hence why I asked

Well confusion resolved & headset fitted, what an unpleasant job that was, but with my trusty rubber hammer & shonky eyesight, its done!

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