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@VanUden
Well, how anal are you and do you ever wish you weren't quite so bad?
I'm currently putting an '86 Raleigh Sirroco together and have already had to face some deeply disturbing issues. For a start, there was very light pitting in a couple of places on the top tube when I stripped it back before sending it off to be blasted properly and repainted. I wrongly assumed that the new paint would cover and fill this completely. Because if, at a certain angle - and under a certain light, you look very, very, closely at the top tube you can still see a very light indentation about the size of a shallow dimple on an ant. Imagine my horror.
What's the most pathetically anal bike related thing you've fretted over?
I think I need to get a life :S