Date a headset [or at least name it]

[dyna-ti]

Got this on the Ti frame.As nobody knows anything about the frame then maybe the headset[i believe is original to the frame] maybe i can work it out from that

I dont have the crown race.

 

[dyna-ti]

What no one?
I think its stronglight :?

 

[g_baz]

Bearings do look like my Stronglight ones. . .

 

[dbmtb]

I have one of these.

Can tell you for sure it's round about 94. I bought mine in early 95 and it had been on display in the shop for at least 6 months before I bought it.

It's NOT Stronglight. It's NOT Primax. That much I can tell you.

They were sold under a couple of brand names if I recall correctly so I suspect it's a generic Taiwanese product.

And that's probably about as much as anybody knows.

 

[Tad]

TH industries? They made FSA amongst others.

 

[silverclaws]

If Taiwanese, nowt wrong with that, they make some pretty good stuff, in fact I read somewhere that the Japs are now sub contracting out to Chinese and Taiwanese factories to maximise their profit.

In fact, look at all the strong cycling component names, then find out where they are made, I bet the majority are Chinese or Taiwanese.

 

[REKIBorter]

Those needle bearings remind me of FSA

 

[pete_mcc]

If Taiwanese, nowt wrong with that, they make some pretty good stuff, in fact I read somewhere that the Japs are now sub contracting out to Chinese and Taiwanese factories to maximise their profit.

In fact, look at all the strong cycling component names, then find out where they are made, I bet the majority are Chinese or Taiwanese.

Just because they make good stuff now doesn't mean they always did. In times gone by (and this is a retro bike website) Taiwanese stuff was synonymous with cheap, poorly made, generic copies of American, European or Japanese kit. It had poor quality control, paid workers a pittance and in many cases was down right dangerous.

Taiwanese stuff is now higher quality because Japanese and Western firms have cottoned on to the fact that it is cheap to make stuff there and so have either bought or built there own factories with their own QC in house creating products of a similar quality to Japanese/Western kit.

 

[silverclaws]

I suppose the same as was Japanese manufacturing as compared to American or British when Jap stuff started arriving on our shores, anyone remember Japanese cars and motorcycles of the 1970s, they started rotting as soon as they were made.