While I'm no huge fan of CK headsets, they are more hype than anything, they do work well and what I love about them is the ability to buy parts for them direct from Chris King. People at Chris King are super easy to deal with and have fast shipping if you need a new bearing or a top cap or whatever random part. As far as how a CK headest works...I can tell no different from a cheape $20 FSA or Cane Creak OEM one. But the people at CK are total stand-up people...right there it's worth buy s CK headest.