Chris King has made it official, their business benchmark headset makes AeroSet 1 & AeroSet 2 choices (patent pending, it appears) obtainable to suit much more bikes with absolutely inner cable routing. Totally built-in cable routing has absolutely taken over trendy bikes. It’s not restricted to at least one body materials or the opposite. And probably not restricted by self-discipline both. So if you’re going to must run your brake and shift traces by way of your headset, you would possibly as properly give your bike a US-made headset constructed to final a lifetime…
Chris King AeroSet 1 & 2 built-in inner routing headsets
Extra customized body builder and manufacturing bikemakers are adopting absolutely inner cable routing. And whereas Chris King wasn’t fairly an early adopter, they do make among the biking business’s longest-lasting and most desireable headsets. And Chris King is catching up.
We first noticed this AeroSet 2 three years in the past within the US-made carbon ENVE Customized Highway. Then, the exterior AeroSet 3 a yr and a half later in Moots’ titanium Vamoots CRD highway bike. First, you needed to be a customized builder growing a motorbike with Chris King to get one. Then, the basic exterior cups possibility made it extra potential for extra builders.
We requested final yr what occurred to primary, and have been informed to be affected person.
Effectively, now it’s right here, and three choices are on supply – with metal or ceramic bearings…
Tech particulars
What’s new is although actually, is simply which you can really get an built-in routing headset on your bike now. Each of those new choices are made for contemporary 1.5″ tapered steerer bikes with IS (Built-in System) headsets – IS52/IS52. These are those the place you drop the 1.5″ headset bearings straight into the body.
The brand new AeroSet 1 is for 45°x45° bearing-to-race interface prime and backside. AeroSet 2 makes use of the identical higher bearing and {hardware}, however a 36°x45° diploma interface for the decrease bearing. That’s it. That’s the distinction for the mannequin we had been lacking.
Each new variations of the Chris King AeroSet share King’s distinctive GripLock remoted wedge tech. That guards your fork’s carbon steerer and the bearings themselves from extreme hundreds. Welcome safety whether or not you trip an ultralight bike or ship your burly mountain bike off massive hits.
And naturally, designed and manufactured in Portland, Oregon and backed by Chris King’s lifetime guarantee
Chris King AeroSet – Pricing, choices & availability
The brand new Chris King AeroSet 1 & 2 headsets are progressively rolling out now within the full rainbow array for King’s anodized shade palette. Moreover, they’re obtainable with normal metal bearings for $295, or for $415 with an improve to ceramic bearings. They function the identical higher headset bearing cap and inner routing guides because the AeroSet 3. Constructed to seamlessly pair with ENVE In Route and FSA ACR built-in inner cable routing techniques.
Made in USA, the brand new AeroSet 1 & 2 already match bikes from Argonaut, Baum, ENVE, Time, and sure fairly a number of extra.
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