Originally Posted by
mattm
As a side-note when I briefly tried to remove my fork once, it didn't just drop out (Tarmac SL4, stock fork). I guess I could mallet it out but didn't want to try.. too lazy. At any rate I've already picked my bag so it doesn't matter too much for me, just curious about that.
That is sort of funny because my girlfriend's Tarmac (It is the "new" Tarmac, so the version right after the SL4) had the same thing. The first time we tried to take it apart to pack the bike it took us like 20 minutes to wiggle the headset cap off of the steerer tube. Seemed almost ridiculous, but it has loosened up a bit with successive packings.