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Got the wife to hold the lockring spanner and opened up the headset.
The bottom/crown race is totally destroyed. The miche headset apparently doesn't have a seal at the bottom, so there was an incredible amount of rock solid dirt lodged inside. After 2 hours of spraying parts cleaner into it, I finally got it apart only to discover that the races were corroded and pitted. The needle bearings were ruined too. Seems like whoever put the headset on chipped the paint around the tube, so some corrosion has got around the tube edges. Grrr.
Do Gazelles take an ISO or ITA headset size? I'm not at all familiar with this side of bikes, so I'll be taking it to my LBS once I get one in the right size.