Wise move Mackem.
No point making a quick decision that you will regret later .

Bump

Is this the thread that was mentioned in the other thread?

Which other thread? Not the one about the car that sounds like a duck?

Four years…!!! I remember the day this thread was started, Christ that’s gone fast.

Does the headset on a 29er use a clown race?.

I’m not sure what type of clown to race.

Four years…!!! I remember the day this thread was started, Christ that’s gone fast.

Happy days. It didn’t leave the front page for about a fortnight. Slipped a bit lately mind. We should probably make of an effort to keep it there, there more people who see it the more likely we are to be able to actually answer the question

(the) more people who see it the more likely we are to be able to actually answer the question

Actually I doubt that – but here’s hoping.

At what point does this become the defining question of STW?

At what point does this become the defining question of STW?

YES

At what point does this become the defining question of STW?

Not sure, we would need a vote, one with a simple Yes or No option. Perhaps there should be 3 teams on for YESSSSS, one for no and another for who GAS.

I think Scotland has shown even on an apparently straightforward question like independence, a simple yes-no isn’t simple.

I doubt it could be applied to anything this important.

Maybe voting based on a weighted scale of yes-ness to no-ness?

Will and Kate are patiently hatching combatants for a future modern-Royal defining crown race……..apparently.

Has Mackem bought his headset yet? Or more importantly, a bearing change or two later, is he in the market for a new one? Things move on, I would be expecting him to want to be sure…

Has he changed the bearings? Can you get the separately or do they only come with a headset?

Some bearings earlier….

(sealed bearing)

Not sure, we would need a vote, one with a simple Yes or No option. Perhaps there should be 3 teams on for YESSSSS, one for no and another for who GAS.

Would whichever team lost accept it as the will of the majority though or would they continue to whinge about it for years to come?

Would whichever team lost accept it as the will of the majority though or would they continue to whinge about it for years to come?

This thread’s already been going for four years….

Yes, but it’s a genuine attempt to find an answer to an important question, not just whining about a lost vote

I’ve just received a set of forks with a crown race attached…
Should I tell the seller?! 😈

I’ve just received a set of forks with a crown race attached…
Should I tell the seller?!

I once recieved a frame with a headset missing the crown race as the seller forgot to remove it and sold the forks, you heartless b******.

Mr Spoon, are you suggesting that the answer to the original question is ‘no’?

Mr Spoon, are you suggesting that the answer to the original question is ‘no’?

When you buy a new headset does it include a crown race?

No, he specificaly asked ‘new’, mine was lightly used.

Did it come with one when it was new or has it since been lost? If so someone must have a crown race with no headset?

Have Giant introduced a new “standard” that does away with the crown race yet?

I’ve just realised – this thread claims to be 5 years old and it’s still open.

Is this a record?

Decent BMX forks have built in crown races for Campag type integrated headsets.

The thread that will not die. Apologies OP for continuing your embarrassment.

Actually, I’m rather proud of it now. Like an errant child that has sorted themselves out.
It’s been suggested I make an app based on this thread. Dunno what it would do though.

I remember chuckling when it first started, is it really five years ago?

What’s a crown race by the way?

Return of the prodigal crown race in a way.

What was the question?

langylad – Member
I remember chuckling when it first started, is it really five years ago?

Apparently

Mackem – Member
When you buy a new headset does it include a crown race?

POSTED 5 YEARS AGO #

To be honest it was definitely not the daftest question asked on here – bike related and a reasonable enquiry really.

It’s been suggested I make an app based on this thread. Dunno what it would do though.

Randomly bump threads?

Bear,is that Minion wearing a crown race ?

Headset you say?

I have nothing to contribute to this……

Very few did…

no_eyed_deer – Member
Couldn’t I just use a cockring?

Yes, absolutely. But not as crown race.
(Unless it was previously a spare crown race, being used as a cock ring; then, yes, yes you could).

Just checking.

*blows some of the dust off page 5*

Ah, the good old days.

Haha! I think of this thread every time someone asks something about headsets.

Good to see it again, glad its not dead!