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Chris King Precision Components has released a limited quantity of Titanium Dropset Headsets ($300). This is the first time the category-defining headset is available in titanium. Like all King’s headsets, the titanium DropSets™ feature King’s patented GripLock™ bearing cap…
Chris King Precision Components has released the latest in its range of iconic component colors, Two-Tone Black Punch. The new color features subtle, matte black backgrounds with intense magenta accent tones. It replaces the Two-Tone Black Gold colorway that was sunset from the line in October.
Chris King Two Tone Black Punch will be available at all Chris King partner shops, as well as on the company’s own website at Chris King.
Originally produced in 1988, 3D Violet was Chris King‘s first component color (after silver and black, of course). After a long hiatus, it’s been back in the Portland, Oregon-based manufacturer’s lineup for the last couple of years. Now, with the release of the brand’s new King Seatpost Collar and Robert Axle Project-manufactured King Thru Axles, you can lace your frame with 3D Violet from headsets to hubs, axles, and bottom brackets.
You can order 3D violet for your bike from your local Chris King dealer or from Chris King direct.
These Chris King Seatpost Collars ($48-56) are one of those products that make you ask: “Why did it take so long?”
Chris King is raffling off this stunning Caletti to support outreach by both Silver Stallion and Warpaint, to Indigenous youth. Caletti Cycles, Black Magic Paint, SRAM, ENVE, and Schwalbe have all very graciously contributed to this project, and the raffle is being run by the good people at Warpaint.
Buy a raffle ticket at Give Butter.
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There are some components you build a dream bike around, and you’re lookin’ at one of them. The Chris King Titanium line is a highly sought-after piece of US-machined componentry, and for June’s Group Ride giveaway, the team at Chris King is offering a TITANIUM 1 1/8″ NoThreadSet up to one lucky Group Ride subscriber!
Sign up by June 30th to be entered to win!
Congrats to Matthew from Corvallis, OR for winning the Yoshimura Chilao SS Pedals!
Over in the Factory Finds at Chris King, the headset manufacturer just listed its Mix-N-Match for NoThreadSet™️ or InSet™️ configurations while supplies last. Roll on over to Chris King to mix and match your favorite colors into one!
Today, we’ve got a fine selection of used goods from the Rad Bazaar, our Group Ride subscribers‘ selling platform, featuring some unique offerings. Let’s check it all out!
Chris King Precision Components has wrangled up its entire titanium headsets stock and has listed them for sale. This will be the last time Chris King offers titanium headsets so now’s the time to buy one in various configurations from 1″ GripNut to 1 1/8″ NoThreadSet. Roll on over to Chris King to purchase. But do it fast; even as we’re writing this, they’re selling out!
Chris King Precision Components has streamlined hub ownership and maintenance with a new Gen 4 hub line that uses universalized drivers and axles. This is not a performance-based evolution. King’s in-house signature bearings and proprietary RingDrive system remain, but these new Gen 4 hubs make service and upgrades more effortless and less expensive. All this is done to lower the overall cost of ownership and increase the useful life of each hub. Check out more below.
We’ve got a special Readers’ Rides today. It’s Chris King’s personal Cinelli Supercorsa. Chris has owned this since the mid-70s and rode it for 20 years straight, including a bike tour from Seattle to Santa Barbara. It features an early Chris King headset using salvaged grade 9 modified bearings and yeah, it’s got some beausage! Let’s check it out with words and photos by Jacob Olsen from Chris King below…
With more builders, manufacturers, and riders asking for full internal routing of cables and brake lines, Chris King has released two more headsets to bring this option to a much wider array of frames. AeroSet™ 1 (Patent Pending) fits headtubes with IS52/IS52 upper and lower and 45° x45° bearing sizes. AeroSet™ 2 (Patent Pending) is the same but with a lower bearing spec of 36°x45° degree…
Within a relatively straightforward product lineup, Chris King Precision Components manufactures hubs, headsets, bottom brackets, and, perhaps most importantly, the bearings inside that make them spin. On a recent trip to Portland, Oregon, Josh spent some time at the Chris King HQ factory to learn more about the company’s origins and what makes it continue to stand out in a crowded space of bearing-centric bicycle components. Read on below for the full rundown of what goes on at CKPC’s giant vegetable oil-fueled machine shop!
Today, we’ve got a fine selection of used (and new) goods from the Rad Bazaar, our Group Ride subscribers‘ selling platform, featuring some unique offerings. Let’s check it all out!
If you got your hands on some Chris King Splash or Chris King Turquoise anodized parts, the brand just released a collaboration with Brooks England and has carved C15 and carved C17 in Splash ano for sale. Check out the full scoop at Chris King.
Chris King just announced a custom headset builder called Mix-n-Match for custom colors under the Factory Finds banner. Available in a veritable panoply of colors (actually an assortment of King sunset colors) in NoThreadSet, InSet or Tapered NoThreadSet configuration. Want a NoThreadSet in orange, brown, and gold? Or an InSet to match your custom paint? Now’s your chance! Each Mix-n-Match headset is built to order while supplies last.
Roll on over to Chris King to build your custom Mix-n-Match headset.
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
