I’m not sure I want to see how Your headset looks inside. 😛

No idea why people whine about it so much. Pull a tandem cable through with new housing and it’s replaced very quickly. Absolutely nothing to fight against.

I also once again reached out to 3T separately.. they still do not sell forks separately. So disappointing! They could make 1000€+ with new fork, headset, handlebar, stem. Still they chose not to sell it and (I think) hope the customer buys a new frame at some point.

It is here to stay. That is certainly correct.

Well I asked through my dealer and the answer was no… Emailed 3T aswell yesterday but I expect the same response. So disappointing. Seems like customer retention is nothing 3T cares about

Why would I buy a bike with a feature I hate? Moot point.

As opposed to the “carbon” spacers that people usually run under their stems? At least the “cheap plastic” spacers follow the lines of the stem and headset cap unlike the boring standard cylinder that is a normal headset spacer that doesn’t match anything.

“Over time”? How long? Hundreds of years?

The far-back bento box mounting is problably something left from the old frame version, where they had to leave some space for the cable routing – should’ve moved them forward…

As for the mud clearance and aero frame tubes – it’s a full-fledged racing bike, so, not an adventure/bikepacking one.