I would caution against playing with the frame or fork spacing on such a nice bike until one has experience with a few lesser frames.
The Sheldon method is proper in that it does each side separately, unlike any kind of "jacking" of opposite-side chainstays or fork legs against one another.
Pulling or wedging frame tubes apart ALWAYS results in one side taking much more of a set than the other, so that initial frame alignment is lost in almost every case.
I do this kind of work at home all the time, but only experience allows me to feel comfortable about aligning an expensive frame.
I have a Cooper now and love it! It's medium-quality CycleArt repaint with a low-gloss clearcoat.
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It seems that I've lost the ability to post photos now, at the same time that the site has been seeing technical problems.
Can anyone identify what the problem is with this posting?
Grabbing the HTML doesn't work any more either:
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EDITING here (after 3Alarmer helped) to restore the photo to the relevent post:
