• Well... I’ve put an awful lot of thought and time into this build and while I love the Tange Levin - I’ve had the same unit on my touring bike for more than a decade - I’d treated myself to my first Chris King for the Crust because it’s a bit more special.

    If I can tweak the CK it will be a precision job, so not really a bodge as I see it. More another way to make the bike my own.

  • If you're going through the effort to have the CK top nut altered, a far less destructive and similarly faffy option would be to have a spacer machined for the collet and tapped on each end (guessing female –> male).