So today I decided to after 3 years and 13000 miles clean by headset bearings on the Wilier. I know it was stupid I don't ride in the rain and it was fine but since I was cleaning the brakes might as well clean the headset. So I take the fork out and typical FSA headset. The bearings really seem to be not made to service they are not removable that I could tell. So I clean everything up and applied what grease I could get to the bearings. The thing and caught me was how small of an adjustment preload on the carbon steering tube that would change the feel.


The first check it seemed that the steering was to tight too much preload. So I backed it down and finally got everything A OK. No play in the fork and smoothing turning. My question is really odd but when you have the preload set should you be able to turn your spaces by hand easily? I could before the cleaning and right now again I can grab the 3 spaces and the top headset piece ( has FSA on it) and easily turn them by had has I hold the bars. Of course when I turn the bars they all move at once. Does this sound like typical preload tension?