If you haven't encountered rinko before, it's a pretty cool thing. Doubt it'll ever be quite so useful in the US, but heck, I had still planned to upgrade to a rinko headset on my Clem anyway, so this was perfect. The basic idea is to make a bike that can quickly be broken down to fit in a special bag to carry on the trains. The headset uses semi-sealed bearings so you can take the whole fork out for that process without losing them or having to spend forever at the end readjusting it. There's a lot about it online, but a decent overview of the practice if not this specific style of headset is this one from BQ: http://www.bikequarterly.com/images/BQ_rinko.pdf
On Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 12:16:02 PM UTC-4, BSWP wrote: > > Thanks, Bill. I guess everybody in the biz must know that about the Rinko > headsets! Sounds like a good innovation, to use cartridge bearings, and I > guess it's fair to assume they're pre-greased. > > - Andrew "why am I always the last to know?", Berkeley > > On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 2:43:04 PM UTC-7, Bill Lindsay wrote: >> >> Those rinko headsets have a cartridge bearing that is sitting inside the >> cups, similar, but not identical to Shimano. With Shimanos, the cartridge >> falls right out. With 'normal' ball bearing headsets there's a ring with >> ball bearings that you slather with grease and install. The headset on >> your Clem will have the cartridge bearings in there already. That's why >> there seemed to be a missing step. >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 1:49:19 PM UTC-7, Wayne Naha wrote: >>> >>> I noticed the same thing. The bearing install was definitely skipped >>> over. >>> >>> On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 4:19:09 PM UTC-4, BSWP wrote: >>>> >>>> Hmmm... watching the video, I wonder, how did the fork bearings get in >>>> there? They came already packed in grease, in the cups, in the frame? >>>> >>>> - Andrew, Berkeley >>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
