Originally Posted by
CyclingFool95
My 96 Colnago that I bought last year came with a Strong-light. It looked remarkably good when I disassembled it, but I just couldn't get the load on it right - no matter what i did it was either too loose or too tight.
A roller bearing headset will always have more drag than a ball-and-cup headset, but since, unlike hubs or bottom brackets, headsets are not in constant rotation when in use, that increased friction is irrelevant. Jan Heine of
Bicycle Quarterly suggests that it may actually be a benefit in dealing with high-speed shimmy.
If your headset was binding at a particular spot, rather than just exhibiting consistently more drag throughout rotation, that is an indication that the head tube and/or crown race seat is not perfectly perpendicular to the steering axis. Re-machining the head tube and/or fork crown race seat would address that problem.