Originally Posted by
randyjawa
Let me see if I have this right. The OP wants to install a component that does not fit properly. To make it fit, he, or she, intends to irreversibly alter a frame set. And someone here suggested this is good advice.
I wouldn't and I didn't. I have this problem, with two bikes, at the moment and I went with component modification, as opposed to damaging a frame set. But that is just me.
+1
While the OP's plan may well work, it strikes me as odd that he'd modify his frame out of a desire to run the original fork and a non-original headset. Everyone's got their own priorities, but why would the originality of the fork mean more than the preservation of the frame, but less than the use of a non-original headset? I know ya said the frame's been thru some abuse already, but i'd just get a different fork or run a different headset...
-rob