Frostbike 2010

Just got home from Frostbike....ok well, I got home about 4:45 but I digress. This was my first Frostbike experience and I must say that it was more fun than a barrel of monkeys...really. Frostbike is sweet because you can walk around a huge warehouse full of distributors who actually want you to talk to them (unlike Interbike) and let you play around with all of their new (and current) shit! I would have to say that the coolest people there were the Surly guys and girls which is a no brainer but I would also say that Woody from Hope was also a bad ass dude as well. All in all it was a great trip that really got my blood boiling for another year of building cool bikes and fixing some shitty ones. The real highlight of the trip was this morning at Cane Creeks headset seminar. Not only did we get to learn some really valuable information about Cane Creeks line and their expertise BUT we were also given a sample kit which included a FREE 110 headset. For those of you who are unaware of the 110, it is literally the BEST headset that money can buy...no joke. My years of being a mouth piece of Chris King headsets has fallen the wayside. Don't get me wrong, King and his people are masters of machining and hands down have the best bearings that you can drop coin on BUT where they fall short is the lack of the split compression ring that they don't want to pay Cane Creek to use. All said and done, the o-ring system that King uses in place of the split compression ring likes to distort and lets the cup smash into your steerer tube over and over again causing scoring...which is NOT good. I will however be putting a Chris King bottom bracket on my bike (if I don't spring for Hopes ceramic one first).