Thinking about the next steps, you would say cut the fork down, wouldn't you? I know that you want the stem to be down in the steer tube past the threaded portion. I wouldn't want to ovalize it, or have it be unsafe.
In the pic above, the dark areas in the headset are the threaded fork. Adjustable race screwed down on the bottom, gap, then the toothed lock washer/cable hanger/spacer sitting at the bottom of the milled keyway (which I will extend-- access to a mill), another gap, and then the bottomed-out locknut. I'd have to make quite a spacer to fill it as is. As you know, we need the height on these conversions, and I didn't want to make it unnecessarily short. I have stems to choose from (technomics and dirt-drop clones). If the consensus is cut the fork, how high past the top of the head tube? What say you, wizards of the conversion? Never run up against this before, and safety first and all that.
Reference was this thread:
http://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...eight-etc.html