Originally Posted by
alexk_il
Used fingers only to avoid unnecessary damage from rushing, smashing or pressing things harder than needed.
Anyway, problem solved now. I figured out that the fork/headset are built to support riders heavier than myself, so I just put the fork into the headset, loaded it with my weight and the race snapped to the bottom of the fork. All is nice and flash now.
Thank you anyway.
That is a bad way of doing it, I would maybe consider have someone double check it all that nothing was damaged. It might not have but generally you are not using bearings as a press. I would not do this sort of thing on any fork but especially a random cheapie carbon fork of unknown quality.