I'm learning about bike maintenance, including headset bearings. This made me aware that the Canyon Grizl seems to have some very particular headset bearings, which no (?) other bikes use. If they need replacing, the only options seemed to be buying a kit from Canyon or the manufacturer Acros, which for me would come out at around 100-120 EUR/USD with postage and taxes.
I don't want to reward bike makers who force you to use overpriced proprietary parts like this, so I contacted a bike bearings store on Aliexpress, who claimed that the two bearings linked below can be used. Final price comes out at about 1/5th of buying from Canyon. The specs on the upper one seems to match, no idea about the lower one. Do anyone here have a better grasp of bearings and/or the Grizl, who could help me assess if these might in fact work?
I noticed that the Canyon kit includes a compression ring, and asked the seller if they also sell this, to which they curtly responded "No". Could I get an appropriate ring elsewhere? Or could I expect to reuse the old ring that is installed with the bearings currently in the headset?
Upper bearing:
aliexpress DOT com/item/1005001515302653.html
Lower bearing:
aliexpress DOT com/item/1005001515226925.html
(sorry, had to mess up the URLs to avoid being auto spam-filtered by Reddit)
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