I'm not a fan of the 7 shaped stem, and I really really don't like the looks of track stems. A track stem and an Albatross bar? I don't think so.
The Atlantis comes with 15mm of spacers (I think) under the top nut. I couild have shortened the steer tube up by that much and that might have lowered the Albatross bar enough, but since the stem I was using (an old Cinelli 13cm with a home brewed shim) was far from ideal, I was not willing to make such a committment for an experiment. Bike shop mechanics cut steer tubes of all description routinely, by the way. Anyway, if that same frame had come with a threadless fork, it would have been very easy to try the lowest postion available before cutting the fork. People do this all the time with mountain bike builds. Yes, it looks pretty funny with spacers on top of the stem, but once the position is sorted out after a few rides, it's easy to cut the steer tube to the proper length. There is nothing difficult about shuffling spacers around, either. You can't get them backwards or upside down. They come in many different lengths, too, so once the proper dimension is determined, it is possible to use one spacer of the proper length in most cases. That looks pretty tidy. That whole process can get pretty fiddly, but then so can unwrapping bars and removing levers in order to try a different stem. With modern mountain bike stems, and increasingly common road setups, it's easy to swap between stems. Takes a couple of minutes. We have a guest bike, an old GT dually, that several people ride over the course of a season. It's a very simple matter to swap stems on that bike, and it gets done often. It has air springs on each end, so at the most we swap out saddles, stems, pedals and adjust the air pressure and it's good to go. This is a very common practice. On Dec 23, 10:07 pm, John McMurry <johnmcmu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 23, 8:18 pm, Atlantean <softlysoftlycatcheemon...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I removed an Albatross bar from my Atlantis even though I liked it a > > lot, simply because I could not get it low enough! > > A stem like this stem ought to help that situation: > > http://www.businesscycles.com/tstem-nitto.htm > > > Imagine that! It > > would have been easy with a threadless fork. > > How would've it been easier to lower the bars with a threadless fork? > > > Actually, I have > > considered getting a custom fork for that bike, and painting it to > > match the head tube. > > That stem, while not exactly cheap, is a whole lot cheaper than a > custom fork, if the purpose is to get the bars low. > > Though, if that's the purpose, I bet there's a better bar for your > ride. > > John McMurry > Burlington, VT --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
