Integrated Headset Bearing - the same size?

martdmc
martdmc Posts: 17
edited June 2013 in Workshop
This is surely a simple question. I have a new FSA Orbit CE and it looks as if both bearings are the same size. I have also done some research and although I have found no straight answer it seems that both the bottom and top bearing are indeed the same. But before doing something silly, can anyone confirm?

In short?

Are they both the top and bottom bearing in an integrated headset the same?

Thanks
Mart

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  • jibberjim
    jibberjim Posts: 2,810
    Depends on the bearing standard in use - but commonest is yes.
    Jibbering Sports Stuff: http://jibbering.com/sports/
  • wishitwasallflat
    wishitwasallflat Posts: 2,927
    More often than not yes but the size of each will be printed on the side.
  • martdmc
    martdmc Posts: 17
    Thank you, perhaps I am just oversensitive. My wife had a look and said that they were the same.

    The headset in questions is as below:
    http://www.fullspeedahead.com/products/308/Orbit-CE
  • g00se
    g00se Posts: 2,221
    From the page you posted, click on the link - inside tech - manual - orbit ce. The diagram has the specs and they're the same.
  • martdmc
    martdmc Posts: 17
    Yes, I saw the specs and I thought that was the case. But doing this for the first time, and reading perhaps too much, I got confused.

    Thank you for help :)
  • dgunthor
    dgunthor Posts: 644
    for ease/cheapness of manufacture, they'd be the same

    if they were different it would be obviously so (like the current tapered ones - 1 1/8 up top, 1 1/4 bottom) and for a reason
  • Welsh boy
    Welsh boy Posts: 38
    martdmc wrote:
    Thank you, perhaps I am just oversensitive. My wife had a look and said that they were the same.

    And we like to believe the women in our lives when they say that the size doesnt matter dont we!

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