Chris King is one of a handful of brands in the bike industry -- Colnago, SRM, and Intense are other members of the club -- that at the utterance of their name causes everyone in the room to swoon. They provide the market with a sort of consistent precision no one else can replicate. It's not that manufacturing headsets, hubs, and the bearings that go in them is easy work. If anything, it's the exact opposite -- when you're bored sometime take out your allen wrenches and a few tiny screwdrivers and dissect a rear road hub. Fewer more complicated components exist on a bike.

The fact that King is synonymous with perfection in context of complicated components makes it doubly cool that they also manufacture something terribly simple: Chris King aluminum headset spacers. Following the introduction of their 1.5 NoThreadsets came the obvious: 1.5 headset spacers. They aren't plastered with King logos or anything of the sort. Rather, they come in the same nine anodized colors as their headsets: Black, Silver, Gold, Mango, Red, Pink, Green, Navy, and Pewter. They're available in two sizes: 3mm or 6mm. If you already own a King 1.5 NoThreadset, this is an ideal accompaniment.

The $10.00 cost is per spacer.