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      CommentAuthorjbucky1
    • CommentTimeMay 10th 2008
     

    ok. so if you feel that bike fits you well, measure the effective top tube and buy another frame set to match, simple as that.

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    yeah duder seat tube affect nothing but looks hence "compact frames" with sloping TTs like the redline 925. which i hear is sweet bike BTW. the pake dosent look all "time trial or pursuit" with forward slanting top tube...it's just like the TT in that respect.

    dude...520 reynolds versus 4130 ? c'mon with an arospoke on a pake you might as well ride a beach cruiser that things gonna be a tank.

    unless you can get a pake for under a C-note get the TT

    do the damn thing!

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      CommentAuthorstumptown
    • CommentTimeMay 11th 2008
     

    Reynolds 520 is just their variety of 4130. Not a whole lot different, but 520 is double butted.

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      CommentAuthorjonah
    • CommentTimeMay 11th 2008
     

    jerome, a 130 dollar headset isnt going to make you go faster.

    • CommentAuthorcharlie
    • CommentTimeMay 11th 2008
     

    ^ o no he didn't ^

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    i dont have an arrospoke. i wish i did, just kidding. whats a c note?

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      CommentAuthorzacp
    • CommentTimeMay 11th 2008
     

    $100

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      CommentAuthorzelah
    • CommentTimeMay 11th 2008
     

    about a bill

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    oh, thanks duderz

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    here's the reply I got from CK:

    Thank you for taking the time to contact us here at Chris King Precision Components, and appreciate the patience in a response. Our bearings, just like everything we produce, are made in our facility in NW Portland, Oregon, actually two walls from where I am typing you now. Raw bar-stock comes in from the back door and leaves as the finished bearings/products. Nothing is sourced outside of our facility with the exception of our t-shirts (American Apparel, made in Los Angeles), and a couple other soft goods. Let me know if this clears up any confusion, and if you have any further questions!
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    > Cheers,
    > Cameron Larson
    > King Cycle Group

    so, i am eating my wordz it seems

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    stumptown:

    Reynolds 520 is just their variety of 4130. Not a whole lot different, but 520 is double butted.

    yup yup, alloy wise, 520 is the same as 4130, that just what reynolds calls it when they draw, forge and roll it into tubes. I didn't mean to imply that anything other than the double butting is responsible for the weight and ride.

    • CommentAuthorkrystenr
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2008
     
    Jennx:

    it's one of those things that say for example something happens to your frame you can still take that headset with, as with others but at least it's gonna last.

    Completely agreed.

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      CommentAuthorfreebird
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2008
     
    white folks:

    here's the reply I got from CK:

    Thank you for taking the time to contact us here at Chris King Precision Components, and appreciate the patience in a response. Our bearings, just like everything we produce, are made in our facility in NW Portland, Oregon, actually two walls from where I am typing you now. Raw bar-stock comes in from the back door and leaves as the finished bearings/products. Nothing is sourced outside of our facility with the exception of our t-shirts (American Apparel, made in Los Angeles), and a couple other soft goods. Let me know if this clears up any confusion, and if you have any further questions!
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    > Cheers,
    > Cameron Larson
    > King Cycle Group

    so, i am eating my wordz it seems

    That is incredibly awesome.

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    when he says "soft goods" I think dildoes am i a perv?

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      CommentAuthorgrimm
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008 edited
     
    white folks:

    when he says "soft goods" I think dildoes am i a perv?

    Yes. But we still love you, Pervy.

    ;)

    Thanks for actually checking into that rather than speculating.

    • CommentAuthorwhite folks
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008 edited
     

    freebird here is the real response i got:

    white folks:

    here's the reply I got from CK:

    Thank you for taking the time to contact us here at Chris King Precision Components, and appreciate the patience in a response. Our ball bearings are made from pure cascadian gnome nuts, everything else like the races 'n' shit we produce, are made in our facility in NW Portland, Oregon, actually two walls from where I am typing you now. Raw bar-stock comes in from the back door and leaves as the finished bearings/products. Nothing is sourced outside of our facility with the exception of our t-shirts (Indian Apparel, made by white slavers in Bombay), and a couple other dildo-type goods. Let me know if this clears up any confusion, and if you have any further questions, well go fuck yourself, just quit sending me porn and viruses you fucker!
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    > Cheers,
    > Cameron Larson
    > King Cycle Group

    so, i am eating my wordz it seems

    sorry i just couldn't let you be right...

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      CommentAuthorgrimm
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008
     

    Reading how sustainable CK is makes me love them even more and want to put one of their headsets on all my bikes, even if it is overkill.

    http://bikeportland.org/2008/05/13/local-manufacturer-part-of-international-sustainable-design-exhibition/

    Too bad itd be more wasteful to replace the working headsets I have now.

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