On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:50:59 Brian J White wrote: >Actually.....as far as I've ever seen in road and mountain bikes...there >have been two headset sizes....1" and 1 1/8" >Most bicycle manufacturers quote one of these two sizes as headset >size. 1" being the more rare of the two these days. > I evidently realize that, Brian. However, these dimensions are actually hard metric ones! The first being 25 mm and the second 28 mm. The problem here is twofold. Firstly that they are NOT *even* quoting the "correct" value (in metric), and secondly that they're putting this crap *exclusively*!
(NOTE: Here in Canada the posting of this spec is sort of mixed with some folks posting AND talking about it the correct way, while others continue to be sloppy on this...) So, it's not a matter of 'blaming Cannondale', as you put it, but to request that they do not follow the same dismall procedure the computer industry has with floppy disquettes! Marcus > >At 14:14 2002-07-11 -0700, Ma Be wrote: >>I just realized that sometime ago I had the intention of also including a >>new story with another message of mine. Unfortunately I forgot to add the >>link and tell about it, so here it goes... >> >>If you surf www.cannondale.com and the specific URL (among others...): >>http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/02/cusa/model-2TR8.html >>you'll notice the following reference under "fork": >>' TIG-welded chromoly, 1 1/8" (SIC) ' >> >>What made me fume is the fact that such dimension (diameter) has always >>been hard metric in this industry (road bike) - 28 mm in this case. Yet, >>these guys are doing the same thing the computer industry is doing with >>the 3 1/2" floppy size crap. >> >>I sent them an e-mail to ALL their customer support links (you can easily >>get them by looking under contact us or something like that in their >>website) and this is what they responded (the representative in Europe, >>BTW!...): >> >>(NOTE: If any of you, especially our European friends, would also like to >>add your voices to "my crowd", please do not mention about me in any way, >>otherwise they'll think that we're "ganging on them"... Thanks) > > > Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com
