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I've flown my bike across the Atlantic a few times and never paid for it. Most international flights treat your bike as part of your standard luggage allowance. But I guess you're making a connecting domestic flight too?
Bringing your bike is definitely the cheapest option as stuff is pricey here.
Second option, maybe to just score a cheap rear wheel somewhere and bring that. That way you can throw if on a conversion and you'll be laughing.
Best places for 2nd hand stuff is bike jumbles (bike swaps to you), EBay, occasionally Gumtree, Brick Lane bikes, Fixedgearlondon and Kiwi bikes are all worth looking at.
The only good places for tools in central london is here:
http://www.56a.org.uk/bikeshop.html
Don't know if its still running.
One thing you do find is some folks have a lot of tools, depending on what you need someone may be able to help out.