I think having a tightened headset for one ride isn't going to cause much damage compared to riding with the forks for however long he had them before.
It's a coincidence.
Remember bar height changes the feel of BB height, but moving the BB would affect how the frame rides - so you could always add more to the BB for easier spins and compensate for the comfort by raising your bars more. That is if there's any room for more stackers on your forks...
Do it properly, get 24" wheels.
Just change the rims, build them onto your existing hubs.
The answer's no by the way, you can't stick 26" wheels in a 24.
There's a few cool stuff to do in the uni campus opposite the QMC.
Used to live in wollaton myself. Could meet you at the uni sometime?
Yeah, there's a few cool spots in town. The main problem is everything's so far apart.
Why pay for royal blood when you can use your tap for free?
OK so it doesn't embed vimeo right now, apparently, so just go on over to that link and watch and learn.
Usually I browse by opening lots of tabs for different topics and then closing them when I've read them. When I get back to the chit chat page I click 'chit chat' at the top to refresh it, and it unhighlights some but not all of the ones I read.