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@nozes: Tell me about it. As the PB peanut gallery and armchair engineering department predicted, his headset is seizing up and failing catastrophically every third jump.

I don't care what the response counter says - comment of the year. Mel Brooks and Noapathy win the internet.

Like the man said, "Wie bist du noch am leben?"

Awesome. But where's his illustrious cousin? Surely, he must have recovered from the last time he broke every bone in his body, no?

Grrr... you beat me to the same comment!

@Austink: Again, I'm skeptical that the in-headset routing on the Commencal is a mortal design sin, for at least the following reasons. The BMX/dirt jump crowd have tried all kinds of wacky variations on running cables into headset and around them. Given that a healthy headset is mission critical to landing big jumps, if funky cable routing were such a headset killer, they'd be the first to stop doing it. Additionally, even with the holes in the HS cap, the dust and crud exposure of the HS is trivial compared to that of the hub bearings, and for us "average schmuck" level riders, those don't wear out every year. Commencal's basically doing the same kinds of things Dangerholm does with cable routing, and when he does it, the PB boards light up with fawning praise. Methinks most of the folks on this board just don't like the way the Commencal's routing looks, not that it's objectively all that bad.

@jamesbriancrilly: Ok, but unless you're riding 8 hours a day in a sandstorm, your HS bearings don't wear out too often. Certainly mine haven't and I ride in relatively dusty, unkind conditions.

@xy9ine: Yeah, it's a great real-world setup for the overwhelming majority of riders who don't routinely ride on "yuge" mountains or race enduro.

Why so much hate on the headset routing - who are these people who are always tinkering with their shifter and brake lines? Seriously, it's a sexy looking bike in a nice color.

Hope he gets well soon. Shoulder injuries are the pits - they take #$%ing forever to heal.