Well the spokes arrived just in time for Warlands Christmas shutdown, hopefully the Chris King headset will be here early next week and the wheels built up and then they can get cracking on the main body bits.. Still entertaining myself with the UT bottom bracket, have purchased (happy Xmas to ME!) a bottom bracket tapping and facing kit and have ordered some shim washers. This weekend I'll try and make up some "wrong way round" chainring bolts, basically a flanged tube nut that will run forward from the rear chainring position without being any deeper than the actual spiders nearest point to the frame, then wide-headed allen screws from the front. I'll make them out of M10's machined down to M6x.75, if that doesn't cure the slight rubbing as it folds I'll have to look at shimming the drive side out with the bottom bracket shims I have ordered, then refacing the non-drive side over to keep it in spec regarding bottom bracket width. The Tektro front caliper has arrived and doesn't look hard to modify to downwards pull, if I get that done this weekend I might even fit it. It looks more effective than the Brompton ones, though looks can be deceiving.... at least it is black, and that's what I want it for as much as anything else seeing as Brompton seem to be making it very difficult to get hold of Black Edition spares. The green coil-over shock has arrived, as has a carbon fibre saddle for which the austerity regarding apparent comfort is matched by the distinct lack of mass.. they can go on and I WILL get that damn seatpost shortened....