If you look at products that take bearings, the three items that most often find their way into boutique brands’ catalogs are hubs, bottom brackets and headsets. The latter has been a glaring omission from White Industries’ spread…until now. This gold external cup headset pic was snapped by California Travis, and Alec White was coy about their intentions for it. What we could surmise from a few cryptic messages were that you might see it on Adam Sklar’s bikes at NAHBS, you might see it on a couple other small builders’ bikes at NAHBS, and it might or might not be something they are developing for future production. And you might be able to spot more pictures of such things on other builders’ Instagram accounts between now at NAHBS. Or, in Alec’s words, “Maybe someone could think that might be what is possibly going on.”
Cane Creek has the lock on premium headsets in Gold… I have one and its beautiful and has performed flawlessly for 2 years.
If I had that headset on my desk, which I’m not allowed to say I do, I would say it’s pretty amazing how light they got it. I could say it’s a full 35 grams lighter than another headset sitting on my desk if I was allowed to say that, but I’m not going to. Could be partly because of the alloy topcap bolt that I couldn’t say exists on this headset I’m not allowed to talk about. They MIGHT also be making a sweet tapered headset, but even if I knew that, I wouldn’t be allowed to say it, so I’m not saying that either. I guess I’m not saying anything, huh? Haha.