Good idea?
I have some wooden bars that are too big to fit into stem without a faceplate, and i’ve looked around for a faceplated quill stem, but heaps are those adjustable ones or kinda ugly.
I was thinking about those threaded to threadless stems so i could have a big choice of faceplated stems.
anyone here used them?
Yeah they work ok.
Why wont the wooden bars fit in a normal quill stem? Are they risers or something?
probably 31.8 or too much bend spuddy
Yer dem ones. 42 tho? I’ll see what ebay can produce.
there’s a non-nitto version of that kind of thing (Trans-X or similar brand) for about half the price of the nitto…shouldn’t be too hard to find in a bike shop.
PBK has some for cheap. And only $10 postage!
http://www.probikekit.com/display.php?cat=Handlebar%20Stems&START=0&LIMIT=31
Yeah I’ve got that one.
Ahead adaptors work, but remember they are not as solid as a real threadless setup.
Yeah that’s kinda why I posted, how ‘solid’ are you talking?
Is this decision going to hurt me in future?
But it’s no less ‘solid’ than a quill stem, which is your only other alternative.
I would argue they actually feel worse than a quill stem- more linkages. Might just be me though.
Is this what we’ve all been waiting for?
http://www.amazon.com/Eleven81-Quill-Adjustable-Road-Bicycle/dp/B001DKXTW2
Is it true, 31.8mm quill stem!?
pukes