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This won't be finished until Friday. The headset fork, and cutting the fork, as well as installing the bottom bracket, are over my head so I'm getting some professional help (for the bike, wiseguys.)

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Are you re-cycling (oooo, a pun...) the components from one of your other bikes?

If so, you might need some special tools to get the crank arms/chain rings and/or the bottom bracket off the 'doner' bike, depending on the style of crankset and bottom bracket. If you don't have them, you will have to get your LBS wrench to take the doner bike's crankset apart.

When I did my BD build on the Bottecchia frame in October, I borrowed some tools from a buddy so I could get the crank arms off the square taper bottom bracket on my doner bike, and to get the bottom bracket bearings out of the frame, and then to put the bottom bracket into the new CF frame and torque it in. The crank arms were torqued with an 8mm hex key, I think (bike/tools in the basement, I'm upstairs).

If that frame uses an integrated headset (was it included from Bikes Direct on the 'buy'?), the head set bearings just slip into the top and bottom of the head tube. I did have my LBS set the crown race on the fork (about a 2 minute job), and then later cut it for me (another 2 minute job) after I decided how long to leave it.

Some other things you might consider:

New shifter and/or brake cable housings, and new cables for both.

And...the CF frame should be easier on the old bod'. The Bottecchia frameset is way smoother than the Trek 1000 I parted out.