yeah- the good 'ole grease the spindles debate. whew...did I spend some time reading through all those threads. in the end I did put a touch of grease on both spindles. I figured that since I was doing this all alone for the first time and with a workstand, I needed all the help I could get leveraging those cranks onto the spindles. Sheldon's site said that the chainline should end up at 42.5 (or whatever is close to that) if I'm using both the 103mm BB and the RDs, I haven't had a chance to check yet, but will take time tomorrow.
Yeah, I know, the handlebars definitely need some work. I'm going to order these Somas (as they're the only 25.4mm bullhorns around) but in the meantime - I'll go buy some tape to wrap my bars. I really need to take the bike in to the LBS and have them overhaul the headset (it feels pretty stiff) - maybe, just maybe, I'll get a new stem (although with the 13/16" measurement on my quill that means a new fork too...and thats maybe more change than I'd like to make to this bike.
Anyways, I rode to and from work today and everything felt good -and I'm slowly getting used to riding fixed - I'm still not convinced that I'll be doing much skidding...fortunately my front brake is on nice and tight.
Also just discovered the DCFixed group which does rides here in the DC area. Nice.