Originally Posted by
frogmeetcog
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?
You have a semi-integrated headset in that case. On a traditional threadless system the cups are pressed in and the bearings are slip fit, if cartridge or just directly loaded into it either in a cage or loose.