Re: Headset cheap fix - works

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think Gary sees it as I do.  Jim Beam, aka:
>
> http://www.internetwines.com/jimbeam.html
>
> fits that description precisely.

now, be honest, is that being curt or rude?

> That this ploy is not apparent to
> some readers strike me as they accuse me of being rude when I am curt
> with someone posting BS and snide allusions.  Mr. Whiskey has been
> ding this for some time now.

and exactly what kind of a comment is that?

seriously jobst, if it were possible to have a grown-up dialog, without 
the abuse, comparing our respective [and potentially complimentary] 
knowledge pools, i'd be prepared to go there.

but i don't think i see that in you.  looking back through the archives, 
i see you repeatedly and blindly castigate [/some/ of your words] 
"dorky" and "BS" innocents that dare to ask simple questions.  even when 
your response makes no sense and they rightly request clarification, you 
fire back with tangential red-herrings effectively declaring that 
the-emperor-is-fully-clothed-and-only-a-/fool/-would-ask-such-a-dumb-question-it's-so-obvious.

example:  "ant" in this thread asks about indexing appearing after a 
crash and you give an oblique response about how the fork will 
mysteriously and suddenly "fret" because the head tube is bent.  you 
don't directly answer the question because you know it will take you 
into the one subject of which you wish to avoid acknowledgement, 
brinelling of bearings.

and to me you say: "take a cast-off head bearing that is not dimpled and 
pound on it with a hammer and show us the shiny Brinell indentations. 
You won't find any."  tell me in all honesty, do you really want me to 
do that?  will you /really/ acknowledge the result when it does not 
accord with your preconception?  or will you just declare the bearing to 
be somehow faulty, a mere fluke?

how about the way you dismiss timken's bearing failure information as 
"an ancient text that no one has bothered to update".  do you really 
expect to be taken seriously?

/this/ is why people take issue with you jobst.  you shamelessly bluster 
for reasons i can only guess at.  what is the payoff for you?

jb