Originally Posted by
ridethecliche
Sorry, I should have specified that the headset is a stronglight hinault and it uses roller pins and not 'ball bearings'. It might be the fork inside the frame, I sprayed frame saver in but didn't spray it with water first, though I did put a rag in and move that in there to get gunk out.
The rollers are in cages, too. Try real hard to clean those, and start looking on the web for replacement rollers