Originally Posted by
trail_monkey
Spot on info there. A lot of the guys I ride with that build their own bikes all have Chris King headsets. And personally I think it's just to have that shiny Chrome and stainless steel bling on their head tube instead of a black Cane Creek. Like I said in my earlier post I have both on different bikes and they all do the job and they all do it very well.
Yesiree. I like the look of the shiny chrome stuff myself, just as I like those colored anodized aluminum hubs, but I am NOT spending
that kinda money for something i don't even look at when I'm riding. I think the cheaper stuff is black these days because at some point in the past they came out with black stuff as the "new and different" that everyone just had to have, so it's the thing now. Now the high-end is switching back to shiny....before long, watch, everything will be chrome again (Yay!). High-end cycling is a 2-wheeled fashion industry!