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This is mine now. I think I paid a bit to much given the level of "patina", but it rides nice and solid and mechanically works well (did my first ride this evening). The seller is a local kid trying to make it as a pro cyclist and sort things out. I also offered to sell him a spare, unused Guru team frame I have for cheap.

Sort of a velo pay it forward thing.

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Almost 30 now.

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What's wrong with the look? I think they aren't just a great improvement in use, but great improvement in appearance.

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Patina is a "thing" now.

All I know is it's darn near impossible to screw up the adjustment on an ahead type headset and I consider that a huge improvement on the old twin flat wrench "Maybe I got it, OOPS! No, I don't." standard headset.

Sometimes hyperbole is warranted. ;)

Does not compute. :eek:

I was going to look it up on the net but took a stab at the age of ahead sets.

Still slogging through Addiction I. It occurred to me just now, that if one of you old timers were to change your signature, such as [MENTION=185471]WhyFi[/MENTION] recently did, you could make reference to a song, or historical even before it actually happened. Weird, Wild Stuff.
Carry on

circa 1990

A short history...

Excellent. I like how it says road bikes were slow to adapt. I know that I had a 1994 Serotta and a 1996 Eisentraut that both still used old style headsets.

I never would have imagined that's a buyer's market.

I should go back and edit some posts to put in spoiler alerts. #Futurist

Evening activities:

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Spring has sprung. Much of the trail is getting overgrown on the shoulders so it's like speedbikes on Endor.

Or one with a screw head.

I must warn you that I have opinions about dremels, and that opinion is that they are ALWAYS the wrong tool for the job (unless you're using a CNC'd router head doing fretboard inlay cutouts... which is why I own one). I can't imagine anything on an RC car that you wouldn't get better results by using a nice small file set.

In all of my RC airplane years I never used a dremel once.

UQUOTE=jtaylor996;19489933]Or one with a screw head.

I must warn you that I have opinions about dremels, and that opinion is that they are ALWAYS the wrong tool for the job (unless you're using a CNC'd router head doing fretboard inlay cutouts... which is why I own one). I can't imagine anything on an RC car that you wouldn't get better results by using a nice small file set.

In all of my RC airplane years I never used a dremel once.[/QUOTE]
I don't much like them either. I can see that they could have a use in polishing bike parts, but I don't believe in doing that.

Stripped screw I'm cutting then using a flathead on.

Good luck, if it doesn't work, bring it by my office tomorrow and we'll get it out. Well maybe not tomorrow, I'll be out all morning, not sure if I'll be back by lunch or not.

A couple of weeks ago we managed to extract a screw that was almost microscopic on an optical lens cell where the head had broken all the way off, and it was in there with locktite. We have the tools. In that case we had some itty bitty left hand drills and used a milling machine to snag it out. Basically you set the milling machine to a speed that you're not supposed to use for a drill because it'll get stuck, and with a left hand bit it will, but then it'll just unthread the screw.

What are they?

Nice, but where is your Silca frame pump. Standards man, standards.

Missed my chance.

You know what I do miss from the "two flat wrench" days? Those Shimano scalloped headsets and wrenches. Damn, they were fine. I sold my set of wrenches on eBay a few years ago. They lasted all of 10 minutes on the site.

The story is way better than the bike, and the bike isn't bad. Enjoy, [MENTION=147472]Herbie53[/MENTION]