| Re: They lied to me (was Goodbye to the Brooks)
In rec.bicycles.misc Dick Durbin <ddurbin@tfn.net> wrote:
> "SMMB" <leurre@free.fr> wrote in message news:<c8asv8$69k$1@news.tiscali.fr>...
> "You should repack your headset at least once a year."
> I have used the same Campy headset since 1974 and have only had it
> repacked a few times. The only people I have ever known who have
> problems with headsets are they guys that are constantly tinkering
> with them.
> "The best pump in the world is a Silca."
> Yeah, and the Model T is the best car ever made.
Besides, we all know how corperations that import bicycle accessories from
tawain never go out of business, get bought out, or get dropped from the
selection at the local bicycle shop. We also know how injection molded
plastic parts last such a long time under cyclical high stress loads and how
the models remain the same from year to year guarenteeing the availability of
replacement parts from the manufacturer for years to come. Pump manufacturers
also never tinker around with the design and produce a few turkeys that never
work right or fall apart within 1 year of usage.
Speaking of durability your 1974 Campy headset, much like a Silca pump, is
simply too heavy, overbuilt and extremely clunky to adjust and use. The
perfect headset is a lightweight integrated one with proprietary parts like
the kind Cannondale put in some of their high end framesets. Cannondale always
had the best business planning of all the bicycle manufacturers and never made
an expensive product on wheels they would no longer would be able to support.
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Eric Yagerlener
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