Ouch. I wonder if he is one of those guys who claimed "a car ran over my Aerospoke and it was fine" Yeah....it was fine until it splintered into several distinct pieces. Nothing is "bombproof" and regular inspection of parts that have been crashed or ridden hard for long period of time is a good idea.

As far as integrated h.s , I have seen a few frames that have developed damage of the frame bearing seats and a few with just plain bad construction of this critical area of the frame. With a regular headset the cups are pressed into the frame and this system has been a solid method for decades. With integrated you are using the actual frame as a bearing support and IMO (as well as others like Chris King) this is a flawed idea. Now with these bikes a toasted headset can easily screw up the frame where the good old pressed design would usually only result in the headset itself needing replacement. Having been wrenching as long as I have it was nice to see some kind of standard come into headsets with the advent of threadless. For many years you had so many different configurations...1", 1 1/4", 1 1/8" English thread...Italian thread...French thread...Swiss thread...25.4 crown....27.0 crown...and on and on. Finally the manufacturers seemed to finally agree upon 1 1/8 threadless as the industry standard but as so many other things in the bike industry "new and improved" has done away with that. On top of a flawed design, now they can't even agree upon one standard for integrated as Mike mentioned. Most of my bikes (my cross bike being the exception as I couldn't turn down the deal I got on it) have non-integrated headsets and have King's installed. All these bikes will never have a problem and will likely never need replacing. End rant.