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Old 01-20-10 | 07:24 PM
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Bikes: Pistachio, a Novara Express (FB roadbike that wants to tour) and Bert, a Schwinn Varsity. More on him later.

I am confuzed now.
I have a road bike with an FSA integrated headset, the sort with pressed in races that the bearings drop into. Hasn't given me trouble in fully 7 years of frequent, wet riding, through several nonviolent fork replacements.

How do conventional headsets like the CK ones work? Are the cups pressed into the frame, and then the bearing cartridges further pressed into those? CK is bashing integrated headsets on mountainbikes (judging by their brochures), and on a MTB the HS does get extra impact and stress, so I can sorta see their point. But then... how do theirs differ in installation?
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