well, moving on, having received 1 pair (of 2) stanchions back from HCP (after a lot of hassle... see thread in rants), i have now rebuilt a set of forks and got them fitted, along with the new clipons and associated controls. then the next cockup arose ... i had previously ordered and had fitted, a pair of avons, they look a nice tyre, proof of the pudding will be when we get on the road. i had finished the back end of the bike some time ago, and the front wheel was at the back of the workshop awaiting the fork fitting. so, i come to fit the wheel which went ok then the mudguard which didn't, little or no clearance .... i stand back and look .... it has to be the wrong sized tyre!... bu55er! the plonkers had fitted a 120-80 x 17 instead of 100-80 x 17 ... i'm a plonker as well, not checking when i picked them up. icould see a lot of problems/aggro in getting the local bike shop exchanging it (what/who/when ordered that size etc) so i picked up the correct size from M&P via their ebay shop, arrived the next day, got 'the local bike shop' to remove the 'old' tyre and fit the new one (no they weren't gong to take it back into stock) , wheel fitted, mudguard fitted, starting to look like a bike....
check 'items for sale' for details of an avon tyre :-)