• Perhaps there is a sound engineering/business reason behind Salsas choice of crown race

    There is. Most headset bearings have a 36° chamfer on the inner race as that's the TH/FSA and Cane Creek way. That boutique manufacturers have chosen to go their own way is their business.

  • from a customer perspective this is confusing

    As far as the component industry is concerned, you are not an important customer, bike assemblers are. If you ordered a thousand forks, you could choose the chamfer angle for yourself 🙂

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