1" mtn bike stem

[Crackle]

Anyone know who sells them? It's a 10 year old bike and I need a new stem that brings the bars a bit higher and closer as I'm not as flexible as I used to be! There all 1 and 1/8 now.

 

[Tim Bennet.]

I think a lot of them come with a packing shim for 1".

 

[Crackle]

I think a lot of them come with a packing shim for 1".

Do they. Right, I'll check that out. That would make life simple.

 

[Crackle]

You can also get shims seperately it seems.

 

[ChrisKH]

Ahead or Quill stem?

 

[Crackle]

Ahead

 

[ChrisKH]

Ignore me then. I bought a perfect long necked 1" quill stem for my old hard-tailed MTB which did the same trick. but obviously of no use to you.

 

[Kirstie]

There's something on this page which does the job and looks like it's only £3.99! Just a gert big shim and then you can get whatever 1 1/8" stem you like.

http://www.bikeplus.co.uk/cgi-bin/q...ory=A_head_Adaptor&page=editorial_display.htm

 

[Crackle]

Yep! perfect. Now to find a stem.

 

[Crackle]

If we are talking about your Bear Valley, I put a pair of cheap bouncy forks on mine which has lifted things up quite nicely without needing the stem.

I thought about this before but the advice was it'll bugger up the ride, has it?

Anyway's for the type of off-roading I do, a rigid is just fine, though some of the made trails these days are not doable on a rigid. What I was thinking of doing is converting it to a sort of trekking/commuter bike and buying myself a new hard tail at some point.

 

[Crackle]

Smeggers, I'd love to see a picture and know which forks you fitted. I'm not sure I'd go down that route but.......

I've still got the original Velociraptor tyres on mine (they were off for several years whilst I had slicks on).