Originally Posted by
DasProfezzional
Gastro, you've long since blown your load on this one.
I do not understand your metaphor. It seems more likely that you're the one who starts frenetically rubbing one out whenever someone mentions Chris King.
Originally Posted by
DasProfezzional
Your experience absolutely proves to us that King headsets aren't good for bikes with 150mm+ of travel, and we thank you for that.
No it doesn't. That's just another incorrect assumption on your part. The failure of those headsets could have been due to a myriad of other factors besides fork travel.
Originally Posted by
DasProfezzional
But those among us who choose parts according to purpose, and realize that some purposes demand differently built parts, know that King's (albeit wide) range of appropriate use does have a beginning and end.
That made me laugh out loud. Are you suggesting that I do not choose parts according to purpose? One of the reasons I bought multiple Kings was the durability exhibited by my first one, which continues to function properly after three or four frames and many more total miles than the latter two combined.
Originally Posted by
DasProfezzional
Use a properly-installed King headset for road riding, cyclocoss, XC, or even all-mountain riding, and you will, in all likelihood, become one of many people who use them as such on this forum and like them very much.
Perhaps. But consider some additional facts: The 11 year old King was never "properly" installed - headtubes were never faced and I typically "pressed" it in with a deadblow hammer and a chunk of 2x4, and hammered it out with a big screwdriver. The newer versions (the ones that failed) were installed "properly." Based upon that information, one might logically hypothesize that the older King headsets were somehow tougher than their newer offerings, no?