Today I've orderd Specialites TA bottom bracket spindle in 116mm, hoping it will work with Sugino cups and fit Stornglight 105bis crankset well. So things are slowly coming together. After going through my box of small parts I have dug out yet another French headset. I took it off an old, broken Peugeot frame found at a roadside few years back and I'm glad I kept it. The crown race on this one (very likely made by Stronglight anyway), whilst still 26.4mm, doesn't have a lip like Stronglight P3 one. It's also a complete match compared with P3's one when it comes to the thickness of it and curvature of the race. So I will be using this one instead, but still need to work a bit on the steerer tube with a file.
It's a tedious task, I'm deliberately slow, measuring it very often and trying to get it as even, as I possibly can. It's not a modification which can be reversed and I don't want to end up with a crown race that's too lose. But, getting there.
