Can anyone identify this?

[cyfa2809]

i have a headset which id like to know what it is. its cane creek and says mfg by th industries for cane creek and has patent number and aheadset on seals. nothing else though? its 1 1/8th and has caged ball bearings. its nothing special, id just like to know what it is :?
any help?

 

[Andy B]

It's a TH Industries headset I have a very similar one on my Orange 5 no model number on it either.

Cane Creek hold the patent on the aheadset IIRC

I have just fitted a 'VP' headset to the Clockwork, although it's branded as Cane Creek too

 

[cyfa2809]

i thought th were like subcontracted and to find it i use cane creek website :roll: yeah i used that patent number and it came up with cane creek beats fsa to use aheadset name. erm so no idea what it is? or how to identify further?

 

[FluffyChicken]

Aheadset <=> Canecreek.

probably just an old CaneCreek Aheadset manufactured by TH Industries and fitted OEM or as the budget range under the Aheadset brand (budget/value) rather than CaneCreek (mid/high end)

Aheadset branding use caged bearing, afaik CanCreek branding use cartridge bearings

www.canecreek.com
www.aheadset.com
www.thindustries.com.tw (see here)

 

[cannondale king]

gt used to fit them to there low-mid range bikes a lot there was one on aq gt chucker i got my brother for his 14th birthday last ages concidering what he did on that bike :shock:

 

[REKIBorter]

Had similar headset on my Kona. Nothing special, made under licence from Cane Creek.

 

[FluffyChicken]

..., made under licence from Cane Creek.

you make that sound like a bad thing. so are Hope, Syncros, Race Face, Chris King, FSA etc..

 

[cyfa2809]

..., made under licence from Cane Creek.

you make that sound like a bad thing. so are Hope, Syncros, Race Face, FSA etc..

all these made by TH? :shock: yeah i cant remember where this came from, possibly a specialised? the one with the brain shock. its still in pretty good nick and looks like it will take a beating

 

[FluffyChicken]

..., made under licence from Cane Creek.

you make that sound like a bad thing. so are Hope, Syncros, Race Face, FSA etc..

all these made by TH? :shock: yeah i cant remember where this came from, possibly a specialised? the one with the brain shock. its still in pretty good nick and looks like it will take a beating

No.
just talking about the made under license from Cane Creek part.
All of the companies license the design and usage from Cane Creek.

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I think FSA use TH though, their bottom brackets, seems to be Orbit in the list of headsets also, as well as some CaneCreek model numbers are there in the list on the TH website.

 

[cyfa2809]

thats still crazy! i didnt know they were all under license from can creek, so in effect most headsets are cane creek, just made by different people! were cane creek the first to use threadless headsets?