Latest Price: £160 – SAVE: 6% RRP:170
We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £160 on Chris King InSet 7 Headset, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Chris King InSet 7 Headset review we’re going to look at why it scores 9.3/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 159 products in the Headsets category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.
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Chris King InSet 7 Headset reviews
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Chris King InSet 7 Headset Specification
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Chris King InSet 7 Headset
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Feature 1
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Steerer Tube OD – 1-1/8” to 1.5” tapered Other Headsets found with this feature: 3 |
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Feature 2
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Upper headtube ID – 44.0mm Other Headsets found with this feature: 2 |
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Feature 3
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Lower headtube ID – 44.0mm Other Headsets found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 4
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Upper headtube ream depth – 10mm Other Headsets found with this feature: 2 |
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Feature 5
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Lower headtube ream depth – 10mm Other Headsets found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 6
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Fork crown seat OD – 39.8mm Other Headsets found with this feature: 3 |
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Feature 7
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Upper stack height – 8.46mm Other Headsets found with this feature: 2 |
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Feature 8
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Lower stack height – 14.8mm Other Headsets found with this feature: 2 |
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Feature 9
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Weight – 150g Other Headsets found with this feature: 3 |
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Spec 1
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Colour: Black, Silver Other Headsets found with this spec: 3 |
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Spec 2
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Steerer Diameter: 1.1/8″ – 1.5″ Tapered Other Headsets found with this spec: 2 |
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Spec 3
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Headset Type: Semi-Integrated Other Headsets found with this spec: 1 |
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Price
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£160 |
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Number of Reviews
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8 |
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Review Score
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4.9 / 5 Average score in category: 4.3 |
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Buy
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- . InSet‚Ñ¢ is the latest addition to the Chris King¬Æ NoThreadSet‚Ñ¢ family. InSet‚Ñ¢ is a low-stack threadless headset designed for use with contemporary frames featuring what would traditionally be called “oversized” headtubes As times have changed, so have the specifications of many of the greatest bicycle designs. These new large headtubes allow frame manufacturer‚Äôs greater surface area on which to attach top tubes and downtubes with the overall result being improved frame strength and rigidity. We pride ourselves on adapting Chris’ forward-thinking original modular designs into ever-evolving configurations to meet most new bicycle designs. The Chris King¬Æ InSet‚Ñ¢ now brings King’s legendary bearing quality and time-tested durability to even more bicycle models. GripLock‚Ñ¢ bearing cap Our InSet headsets feature an all-new bearing cap design. GripLock‚Ñ¢ is a multi-piece bearing cap that utilizes a split ring that improves steerer tube interface. For tapered 1-1/8‚Äù to 1.5‚Äù steerer tubes but can be used with 1-1/8‚Äù steerer tubes by purchasing a Devolution 1.5 to 1-1/8‚Äù Baseplate/crown race. Features: Steerer Tube OD ‚Äì 1-1/8‚Äù to 1.5‚Äù tapered Upper headtube ID ‚Äì 44 0mm Lower headtube ID ‚Äì 44 0mm Upper headtube ream depth ‚Äì 10mm Lower headtube ream depth ‚Äì 10mm Fork crown seat OD ‚Äì 39 8mm Upper stack height ‚Äì 8.46mm Lower stack height ‚Äì 14 8mm Weight ‚Äì 150g Buy Chris King Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
- Product codes: 841529058819
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No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Headsets.
Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Chris King InSet 7 Headset or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 159 different products in the Headsets category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 16 products from Chris King (although only 12 of the 16 are in the Headsets category).
Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Headsets. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.
Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Chris King InSet 7 Headset and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Chris King. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Chris King InSet 7 Headset to help you see how the prices stack up.
We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Headsets. There are 159 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 159, the average price is £29.40. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £0.99 and most expensive was £160.
The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Chris King. The average price was £123.47 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £20.5 up to £160 with Chris King products.
And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Chris King products that appear specifically in the Headsets category. So you can see that the price of Chris King InSet 7 Headset at £160 is great value considering the average price of Chris King Headsets is £126.00 and the price varies from £93.00.
It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Chris King InSet 7 Headset during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £160 which represents a £10.00 or 6% saving against RRP. If you think Chris King InSet 7 Headset ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.
Chris King InSet 7 Headset Reviews
Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Headsets too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Chris King InSet 7 Headset is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find 8 reviews scoring it 4.9 out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Chris King. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Headsets category is 4.3 and the average score of products from Chris King is 4.5 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Chris King in the Headsets category the average review score is 4.8.
That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Chris King InSet 7 Headset such a high overall score of 9.3 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.
So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are 8 reviews for Chris King InSet 7 Headset which score it 4.9, so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.
If you do go on to buy Chris King InSet 7 Headset or in fact any of the other Headsets, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.
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