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Forgive this old luddite with little awareness of the existence of modern component wizardry.
What is a Hope Head Doctor?
A way of eliminating the star fangled nut?
If so, does it offer any real benefit or advantage for the extra outlay?
It is, as you say, a star fangled nut eliminator. I’ve had a few & they work well.
Sadly I’ve had to revert to sfn usage as I’ve taken to using that space for a Garmin mount.
Can't use a star fangled nut on a carbon steerer, but that's more a thing on dropbar bikes.
I use them on a couple of bikes. They work well, but sometimes don't play nicely with very thick walled aluminium steerers (won't fit in without a struggle or not at all in one case)
Also the aluminium bolt they come with is very easily stripped. I run both of mine with normal steel bolts and non Hope headcaps.
Thanks chaps 😀
I stopped using things like Hope's head doctor after it slightly swelled my steerer, I had a particularly tight fitting stem at the time making it harder to install, maybe I should've put the stem on and tightened up before installing the head doctor.
I love the use of modern here, they've been around about 25 years.