Originally Posted by
fietsbob
so you didn't measure first, just forced it in, eh?
Well I measured it to the best of my $3 calipers' abilities. I got quite a scare when it appeared that the OD of the headset was a full mm larger than the ID of the headset tube, but I was able to verify this is a systematic bias between the OD/ID arms of my calipers (OD of a 27.2 seatpost looked like 27.0-3, but ID of the seat tube it securely slides into looked like 26.notmuch)
At that point, I was confident enough that the surly frame was manufactured as-designed, so I went ahead. Look man, I got a brand new frame on Wed.; you expect me to sit around wed night, thanksgiving and friday and saturday and sunday not building it up so I can ride it?