MAJs gay bikes [she’s in her fitness era]

No prob! You deserve it :)

I have just found out that you need a FIFTY POUND ADAPTER to install this pretty Chris king headset

I cannot convey, how much I hate this man.

I hate him and his proprietary tooling

Alas,

I will keep installing his shit

….is there a way I can get this in with a standard headset press….

Big hammer, block of wood?

Have you SEEN the size of my arms, they’d break before it even got purchase

Yes to the stickerbomb!

No gods, no masters.

Get some big and fat washers from the local ironmonger, fiddy pence

This or rubber mallet and wood, works and ita not a matter of strength just time

yaaaaawn never used this magical tool in all my time fitting these “magical” headsets.

Just press it with whatever or smash it in with whatever.

Just bolt that sucker on

I’m cracking, the sirens call of sbc becomes louder and louder

Old me was SO RIGHT for speccing an inset headset on the Homer

New me is an IDIOT trapped by their own hubris

Have you SEEN the size of my arms, they’d break before it even got purchase.

Training montage video in 3... 2... 1...

an IDIOT trapped by their own hubris

Is this not the tragedy of the human condition?

Just use a block of wood and a hammer. I did this to my Chris king after cutting the crown race.

If you don’t want to assemble your own press out of threaded rod, nuts and washers: you can buy a ready-assembled version with an integrated bearing for less than a tenner off EBay/Amazon. Both will slip that sucker right in.

Universal tool aka mallet. No wood needed, plus it has loads of uses outside of this. The only caveat is that it always looks like it's going wrong and you've fucked it, but in my experience, if you do it right, and you don't fuck it up, it works every time.

Or take the whole thing to the shop and get them to build it. Bet it barely costs anything. You're worth it.

TBF @Maj.

Look up homemade headset / bb presses on the Internet and go to your local hardware store and build one for less than a tenner.

It'll be well worth it and as a mallet has a higher risk of fuckery.

the only comfort I can offer is that eKatu is heavily discounted atm and you should buy

eKatsu pls

AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGEMENT, i will just be taking the frame and fork to "butternut bikes" in crouch hill (it looks nice and it's reasonably close) to have the headset and crown race fitted; not the whole thing built.

i will instead prolong my suffering building the thing when it is fitted

more so the fact of bringing a bike in 6 seperate bits on the bus fills me with dread than any sense of "need to build my own bike" or "continue tormenting myself as a form of selfflagelation"

if there was a bikeshop on greenlanes highstreet which sold nitto it would be going there, but alas, there is just beutiful reausteraunts and a great pub.

Honestly just use a hammer and save the money. I’ve got Chris kings on my omnium and my Ti road bike, both installed at home without a press or crown race tool

tern dealer! you should have a go on NBD or Quick Haul ;)

i think the hammer it in conspiracy comes from the wish of sick individuals wanting to see a dyspraxic woman put a mallet dent in her new frame.

Haha, you’re supposed to hit your thumb, not your bike.

it's 20 minutes on the bus, and i can go to gails (i cannot eat anything at gails)

Sorry to come in this thread for fashion half the time (as a former fashion forum user myself, I don't know where else to get my fix), but : shoes id?