Very short quill stem

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Dave5N

Über Member
I need a really short (80mm or less?) quill stem for my son's bike. It is a bit big and he is very stretched out and finds his neck aches when on the drops for a while. A shorter stem will pull him back and he might actually get off the nose of the saddle!

Does anyone have such a thing?

Many thanks
 

bonj2

Guest
why don't you get a proper headset dave!
 

bonj2

Guest
get a proper i.e. threadless headset. Take the old fashioned headset off. Put the proper headset on. (Or get a bike shop to do it).
Then you'll be able to fit a proper stem on.
 

bonj2

Guest
Uncle Phil said:
Nothing wrong with threaded headsets and quill stems.
I have a 70mm Cinelli one - any good? Yours for, say £5 via PayPal and in the post tomorrow.

Well, there is - if nothing else that there's not as good a range of stems for them!
I had a bike with a quill stem and it kept coming loose, so i don't trust them.
 

Amanda P

Legendary Member
Fine. You carry on with your lumpy, heavy, inelegant threadless setups, Bonj.

Meanwhile, Dave5N knows what he wants and it's a quill stem. Much as you may disaprove, fitting a shorter one is a much cheaper and more appropriate solution to his problem than buying a whole bunch of new parts just because you don't like the design of the old ones.
 
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Dave5N

Dave5N

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Bonj, you reveal more of your ignorance with each post you make.

Uncle Phil, many thanks. I'll get the tape measure out and get back to you.
 
bonj said:
well, it's adjustable, but i'll let you off.

Gee! Thanks bonj :tongue: It replaces this one
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which was a little bit too high (but only cost a couple of quid) and looked a bit gormless. The original conversion looked like this
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and I thought that looked even worse, though the bars seemed more or less where I wanted them. I found that SJS do a spacer that just 'filled the gap'. I suppose that I could have fitted one of these
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but I wanted black and an open-face clamp (and anyway that cost more than the bits I finished up with anyway). So, I reckon that I have the best (or worst?) of both quill and ahead :smile:.
 
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