Try raising one side of your mouth slightly while squinting your eyes . Raise your shoulders and have a slight bend in your knees . Then growl .
My stem has spacers!!!
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totallyfixed
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The point I was making, ok a bit tongue in cheek was that spacers fit on the steerer not the stem. quite apart from aesthetics, the reason you do not have too much steerer sticking out above the stem is if you crash and you impale yourself on it.
slowmotion
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I like it!@totallyfixed Ok 5 may have been a slight exaggeration, I just hecked and it's come with 4 spacers, 2x10mm and 2x20mm much like bpsmith's bianchi.
Not sure if you can make it out at this resolution but:
youngoldbloke
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Unless you are able to specify otherwise the bike will come with a fairly long steerer - then you can cut it down to the height you require, when you get the bike set up as you like it. You can't make it longer if the stem has been cut - obviously?
totallyfixed - are you serious? Are you still riding in quill-stem land? Nowadays bikes come with aheadsets, and steerer tubes and separate stems. Look carefully at the Giant above and you can make out the spacers (4? - 2 thinner, 2 thicker) below the 2 bolts on the side of the stem. The usual advice is to keep one thin spacer (2mm) above the stem to ensure preload, and one below. The tapered spacer on the Giant would be adequate.
edit - totallyfixed missed your last post - my apologies .......
totallyfixed - are you serious? Are you still riding in quill-stem land? Nowadays bikes come with aheadsets, and steerer tubes and separate stems. Look carefully at the Giant above and you can make out the spacers (4? - 2 thinner, 2 thicker) below the 2 bolts on the side of the stem. The usual advice is to keep one thin spacer (2mm) above the stem to ensure preload, and one below. The tapered spacer on the Giant would be adequate.
edit - totallyfixed missed your last post - my apologies .......
slowmotion
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I think that the 2015 models have 6 degree stems but I don't know the length.
Shut Up Legs
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I have lots of stem spacers, a 35° angled stem and handlebars at an odd angle, because I use the drops all the time. Despite being a so-called cycling fashion disaster, I can still ride my bike a few hundred kilometres in a day with this setup. Who would have thought? 
NorvernRob
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I have lots of stem spacers, a 35° angled stem and handlebars at an odd angle, because I use the drops all the time. Despite being a so-called cycling fashion disaster, I can still ride my bike a few hundred kilometres in a day with this setup. Who would have thought?
I don't understand why the drops are any more comfortable, surely raising them right up is just akin to riding on the hoods with a normal setup?
Shut Up Legs
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No, the hand and wrist positions are different.
Vapin' Joe
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Take a trip over the bars with six inches of exposed steerer waving in the air and you'll find out.
What about 2014 models, as pictured?
youngoldbloke
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slowmotion
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I don't know, but here's a warning. I have a Specialized Secteur Elite which needed a new freehub so I rang the UK Specialized Concept Store to ask if they had one. I gave them the frame number. They replied that it could be one of several versions, depending on what was in the factory stores when the bike was manufactured. They asked me to bring the bike to them. I think that mixing and matching of components is pretty common except in top-of-the line bikes.
Always my first port of call but as you will see...
http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-gb/bikes/model/2014.giant.defy.1.black.red/14977/66543/
Far from useful on 2014 model page.
