Chris King slims down product line....will others follow?

[shiny]

Interesting news that Chris King are slimming down their product offerings. I know they are a premium brand but are quite popular aftermarket. Details here:

Chris King's Streamlined Offerings

We love Chris King's wide range of hubs, headsets, and bottom brackets, so we were saddened recently when we saw their new, significantly reduced offerings. Chris King has long been a go-to for top quality parts for rare configurations (Devolution headset anyone?), and that put them in an odd...

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If you can’t be bothered reading basically Boost and a Super Boost hubs only, no more super weird sized headsets, no more pressfit and a reduction in the amount of tools they offer. Interesting that the grease gun for their BB is gone, thought pumping new grease into your BB would be a good idea.

Makes me wonder if other brands will do a similar move to reduce their inventory or King weren’t seeing sales on those lines and decided to cut them.

 

[Mr Crudley]

Makes some sense though.

Too many standards to keep up with inventory I suppose. An offshoot of the innovation of having several sizes of almost everything that rotates.

 

[silentbutdeadly]

Pragmatism is rarely fun but it does make economic sense.

Wonder when the CK brand is going on the market?

 

[ozzybmx]

Is probably bling in the highest degree, there are cheaper, better options but CK is awesome stuff. I have many 1000's of Kms on my enve wheels with CK hubs... they just needed to have shown people the easy way to service them instead of trying to sell us proprietary tools and grease.