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Old 01-27-21, 08:13 AM
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If the crown race fits and the bearings are smooth I don’t see an issue. I would guess that if you wanted to, you could replace just the sealed bearing cartridges.

I’m not up to speed on differences between headset mfg’s cartridge bearings, (i.e Aheadset vs Cane Creek), but I can’t imagine component mfgs make their own cartridges. There may well be a standard OD/ID and race angles.

John
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