Originally Posted by Bikkhu
The obvious answer of course is Chris King... but that screams "more money than sense" bit too loudly for my liking. So we are talking under $100 range here.
I have no suggestions on headset choices, but did want to chime in on some of the expensive choices. I don't own a King, but have a few other high end ones. In particular, I've got a Syncros headset that I purchased about 8 years ago. Used. I've got my money out of that bling headset.
Quality headsets move bike to bike. I cheap out on them occasionally, but the nice ones I do have have all lasted a long time, stayed in adjustment and moved bike to bike to bike.