The bottom bearing is going & I was wondering it anyone had sourced a replacment bearing,
Andy
IIRC you can but the price is near enough that of the whole headset so replace the whole thing. FWIW, I swap the top and bottom bearings round on headsets that have the same bearings (which the XL2 does) as the top bearings rarely die.
£20 for bearings: http://www.rushcycles.co.uk/products.php?plid=m2b138s115p3444&rs=gb
£15 for whole headset... http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/HSFSOXL2/fsa-orbit-xl-2-headset
[url= http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/FSA_Orbit_XL_II_Bearings/5360018661/ ]Wiggle[/url] do them, but it's probably cheaper to buy a complete headset from [url= http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/HSFSOXL2/fsa-orbit-xl-2-headset ]On One[/url] at the moment
edit: Too slow!
second edit: you can swap the top and bottom over, but in some variations of the headset there are slight differences between the bearings - I used two top bearings for a while, but the lower cup jammed on the fork crown until I put a very thin spare underneath. A proper 'lower' bearing fixed it.
Thanks for that, I'll just get a new one. It's crazy really, we live in such a disposable world.