• I wouldn't worry about the proprietary bearings, they are by far the most expensive part of a headset so it's nearly always cheaper to buy a whole new headset than to replace the bearings. Cane Creek are good, you're not going to see much of any logo if you put a straight 1⅛" steerer into a 44mm head tube, as both ends of the headset will be zero-stack. With a tapered steerer and a straight head tube, it's zero-stack on top and EC44 on the bottom, and even then the logo is my newt

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