Welcome to the new headset benchmark

Finally—a headset that gives you everything you want, and more.

Headsets lead a hard life, so no wonder that it’s hard to find one that gives you 100 percent of what you’re looking for. As the originator of the threadless headset, Cane Creek knows more than anyone else how to create the ultimate headset—and with the new Cane Creek 110, we’ve done it all. An exclusive premium alloy. A new split lip seal that keeps contaminants out and grease in, with less drag. A low stack height and honestly low weight. Durability backed by a 110-year warranty. And a tapered compression ring that sets bearing preload and stays true (no rocking, no creaking) no matter what or how you ride. With the Cane Creek 110, your headset will always be front and center.

Engineered to outlast

The Cane Creek 110 embodies the sum total of our experience designing and manufacturing high-performance headsets. In developing the Cane Creek 110, we’ve built upon and refined key Cane Creek innovations, such as Interlok spacers, while rethinking every aspect of the design, from alloy to bearings to compression ring to crown race and on and on.

We’ve designed and manufactured a few million headsets in our day, so we have some idea of what it takes to create a benchmark, no-compromise design. Cane Creek originated the threadless headset almost 20 years ago, ushering in a better engineered, simpler system for linking the critical steering tube/handlebar interface. Every year since we’ve been advancing the state-of-the-art, looking for new ways to improve performance and durability.

Interlok Spacers

The Cane Creek 110 comes standard with 17.5 mm of our new color-matched “scalloped” Interlok spacers.  This design provides a solid interface between the top cover and the spacer stack while shaving an additional 25% in weight off a standard alloy spacer stack.
 

Performance redefined

More than the sum of its parts

• Hard-Pack Alloy – The cups and spacers are machined from a custom drawn seamless tube of 7050 Plus Aluminum. This unique manufacturing process allows for an incredibly strong material without a weight penalty.
• Captured Compression Ring – Variations in steer tube diameters are common and sometime shims are needed to correct this.  The “Captured” compression ring keeps these shims in place while maintaining the simplicity of the system.
• Split Lip Bearing – By incorporating a dual lip design the bearing gets twice the protection of standard headsets while decreasing friction.
• Low Weight – Without its spacers or preload assembly, the Cane Creek 110 is a remarkably light 97.5 grams. You won’t find a better performing, more durable headset. Finding a lighter one is just as unlikely. 

SPLIT-LIP SEAL
Outer Lip Seal keeps grease in.
Inner Lip Seal keeps contaminents out.
Each lip seals in one
direction only. This allows the use
of low-friction face contact seals,
yielding a super-smooth, virtually
zero-drag bearing.