Originally Posted by The Thin Man

Thanks everyone for the great thoughts, suggestions and techniques. There is no way I'd modify the frame/fork. That's nuts. There's another way. And that way, to me, sounds like what oneclick and PhilFo suggest by filing the saw-points off the adjustable race. Then put the toothed washer in the headset parts bin for another day (that hopefully I'll never need because, remember, NO MORE FRENCH BIKES!).