Originally Posted by
seeker333
...go to your LBS, buy an inexpensive HS, and have them install it for you.
+1. Installing headsets is the one thing I don't do. I tend to be quite particular with most parts, but when I buy a new frame I just ask the LBS to install the cheapest decent headset they have -- that's typically only $25 (Ritchey Logic most recently).
I do have a Chris King on one bike, and it is certainly a thing of beauty, but I've put many, many miles on the $25 headsets without doing a thing to them. (I do use fenders, and that goes a long way to protecting them.)