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Cane Creek do all manner of headset top and bottom cups for all different sized head tubes
You buy the top and bottom cups separately, eg for a 440 head tube you can buy the cups to run a 1 1/8 steerer tube or a tapered one.
Chris King allegedly sell separate top and bottom cups, but when I tried to buy one it turned out to be nearly impossible, hence why the 29er now has a King Caner headset - I had bought a Chris King inset headset when I was using a 1 1/8th fork but when I upgraded I needed a new bottom cup. Bromley Bikes (the CK importer) were not interested in helping me. CK told me to order one from Asipire Velotech but failed to mention that they had none to sell to Aspire.
After much dicking around and waiting I just bought a CC bottom cup.