I had a bit of a shaky start. We built bikes as kids but that was in the 70s and I never did a bottom bracket and the headset was totally different from what I remembered. I got some help on these forums (thanks Scrod) and from my lbs and after that the rest all came back to me. I'm also having trouble finding a brake lever that I like that fits. The stash bar is 25.4mm from end to end. Gonna go fixie and no brakes for a while and photogragh it with a few NYC landmarks then flip it to freewheel and add the brake. I call it "Whiteboy"