I get the best of both worlds on about half my bikes by using a threadless stem and stem riser. The stem is threadless and has a removable faceplate so I can swap the stem without stripping the bars. It's attached to a riser that's essentially a threaded quill stem without the extension. A link to Velo-Orange's option is below, but others make them as well (Soma is the other one I use when I need one that's longer than VO's). It's not as elegant as a classic quill stem, but oh man, the added convenience overwhelms that drawback for most bikes.
If you don't want to live with one forever, it's at least a great option to let you dial in your stem dimensions before that one final set-up that requires you to strip and retape. https://velo-orange.com/collections/stems/products/vo-threadless-stem-adaptor Dave Boston/Indy On Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 11:16:50 AM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: > > > But OTOH, the huge amount of work saved by not having to untape the bar > and remove clamped-on fittings, and the savings in replacing bar tape (I > manage to mess up tape when removing it several times) makes the difference > in my opinion a wash. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
