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@Simon
Oh god I think I've just discovered yet another mistake made by the LBS who built my bike. I'm beginning to think I should just strip it and start again.
They told me when I collected the bike that they had adjusted the Surly flip flop from 130mm to 126mm to fit my dropouts "by removing a 4mm spacer from the hub". Looking at the threads on each side and measuring from dropout to hub flange it would seem that this spacer has been removed from only one side.
Surely this can't be right?! If the hub isn't centred on the axle then wouldn't the wheel be at an angle when the front of the wheel is centred in the frame? And also, when I flip the wheel round from fixed to singlespeed I'll have two totally different chainlines.
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Simon