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Boy, mr Hacked, you are about to be VERY glad this was moved to the dark.
I worked on one of your bikes two weeks ago, it was new (within a month) and the guy was complaining that his headset wasn't fitting properly. Foffa told him he just needed to adjust it and keep an eye on it, but just to be sure he brought it to my shop.
You used (I'm saying you because you admit to being the builder, I appologise if you are not the builder for all of their bikes) the wrong size crown race.
Sure, it's a small thing. But you would have had to think about it when it slid onto the fork like a wizards sleeve, then think about it again when you went to adjust the headset and it went from slack to too tight instantly. But you didn't try and sort it out.
It takes a long time to become the kind of mechanic that can work by herself without having someone else to bounce questions off. At work everyone ends up asking someone else about something, and these are some of the best mechanics in the business (not me, I'm aspiring, but I make sure they are checking my work).
Perhaps it would not be a bad idea to realize you are out of your depth and think about what you are going to do to remedy this.