Originally Posted by
pavena
First and foremost, literally, I love you. I've been desperately staring at the computer hoping I'd get replies soon because I'm so anxious, so THANK YOU lots for replying. So I didn't TOTALLY waste money on this crankset? And hm, headset.. Again, I'm completely new to the bicycle world, so I'm going to assume that's the handle bar area? If so, I was just going to replace the drop with a flat?
The headset was the part that held the fork onto the frame; the part of the frame where the fork slides into is called the head tube. When you removed the fork from the head tube, you unscrewed a nut and a threaded race as indicated in this web site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headset...rt%29#Threaded . Did you plan on re-using the parts or do you need to replace them?