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Are you doing all that on old 200GS?
jaklloyd":13snuj9b said:I have a threaded fork - no Hope headset for me it seems.
The cartridge bearings will wear, but what I am worried about is a worn out headset rather than worn out bearings...as you replace the surface that the bearings roll across when you replace the bearings, surely the headset itself will last forever and you can replace cartridges indefinitely?
The trip is through Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, China and then onwards to Uganda, Rwanda, and several other countries in Africa (that part of the trip is a year away and therefore unplanned). Basically I very easily could end up somewhere where I do not want my beauty to break down.
If cartridges are meant to be pretty reliable and sealed, then if I take two sets of spares this should be enough right?
Or do people really think I should go down the ball bearing option where if in desperate need I could source some BBs? What if brinelling occurs due to the overloaded weight? Then me headset is fudged and that's a way worse problem.
Are you doing all that on old 200GS?