Ravelin
Active Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Excuse me if this has been covered, I've searched and I can't find anything.
I Have Claud Butler Stoneriver MTB that's about 6-7 years old. I was always fine with my riding position until I recently replaced the pedals with some one-sided clipless ones. Now clipped in I felt my saddle height had to increase slightly so I moved it up a bit. Consequently I now feel my handlebar height is too low.
On a ride last night I decided to bring the handlebars up a bit (in retrospect, a bad time to it). I slackend the bolt on the top of the stem like I've always done with every other bike, but this one is different. The whole front fork seemed to loosen up so I aborted the operation and tightened it back up. It looks like the bike probably has a "threadless stem" if I correctly understand what I've now read here. I could see o-ring spacers, ballbearings etc when it was all loose.
I didn't have time to examine the whole mechanism more closely after I got back home so it might have missed something obvious. I'll risk seeming stupid though and ask, how do I raise my handlebars? It must be fairly straightforward surely, since it's a basic adjustment that should be done on most bikes, at least initially?
William
I Have Claud Butler Stoneriver MTB that's about 6-7 years old. I was always fine with my riding position until I recently replaced the pedals with some one-sided clipless ones. Now clipped in I felt my saddle height had to increase slightly so I moved it up a bit. Consequently I now feel my handlebar height is too low.
On a ride last night I decided to bring the handlebars up a bit (in retrospect, a bad time to it). I slackend the bolt on the top of the stem like I've always done with every other bike, but this one is different. The whole front fork seemed to loosen up so I aborted the operation and tightened it back up. It looks like the bike probably has a "threadless stem" if I correctly understand what I've now read here. I could see o-ring spacers, ballbearings etc when it was all loose.
I didn't have time to examine the whole mechanism more closely after I got back home so it might have missed something obvious. I'll risk seeming stupid though and ask, how do I raise my handlebars? It must be fairly straightforward surely, since it's a basic adjustment that should be done on most bikes, at least initially?
William