New Stem Help

Crashchan · *by **Crashchan** on Sat 25/Apr/09 5:38pm*

Hi I have a small delmar I have set of Fox 36 van r to replace my Marzocchi 55 ata but the steer is quite short i have about 27mm sitting out of the top of my headset. The Raceface atlas stem I have has a 42m stack height. I do not I want to change my Chris king reducer headset, are there other stems I can replace my stem? What are your thoughts I do not want my bars to come off in my hands. :paranoid:

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The stack height is 30mm. You will have plenty of steer tube.

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Hi Lindsay,
The Chromag block002 is 40mm

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Ian

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ants06 · *by **ants06** on Sat 25/Apr/09 5:57pm*

I had the same issue when a mechanic cut my steerer to short ended up getting a "outland" stem ( only had 30mm avalible on steerer) and that was on my dh bike with no issues

shmoodiver · *by **shmoodiver** on Sat 25/Apr/09 6:05pm*

ants06 wrote:I had the same issue when a mechanic cut my steerer to short ended up getting a "outland" stem ( only had 30mm avalible on steerer) and that was on my dh bike with no issues

you kidding me? i would've been asking for a new steerer/crown

ants06 · *by **ants06** on Sat 25/Apr/09 6:13pm*

shmoodiver wrote:
ants06 wrote:I had the same issue when a mechanic cut my steerer to short ended up getting a "outland" stem ( only had 30mm avalible on steerer) and that was on my dh bike with no issues

you kidding me? i would've been asking for a new steerer/crown

for the price they gave them to me for i didn't really feel right , they would have if they hadn't found a stem i liked . ( gave me the forks at cost with free fitting brake adapter and stem -boxxers) so i was happy

shmoodiver · *by **shmoodiver** on Sat 25/Apr/09 6:17pm*

ah righto, thought it was a "here fit this" "um sorry dude i fucked it" situation

ants06 · *by **ants06** on Sat 25/Apr/09 6:22pm*

shmoodiver wrote:ah righto, thought it was a "here fit this" "um sorry dude i fucked it" situation

LOL , i was there when it happened he measured the old steerer(single crown) and cut boxxer at the same got half way through cut and whole shop just heard "FUCK" he forgot to add top crown thickness - was actually pretty funny-and i wanted a new stem

shmoodiver · *by **shmoodiver** on Sat 25/Apr/09 6:30pm*

yeah know that one

Spokes · *by **Spokes** on Sat 25/Apr/09 6:33pm*

Any who, most stems will be about 40mm. I would be looking at headset change to a flush one. I run a FSA orbit one I think, its 3 years since it was fitted. Even if you fit the flush one on top only.

Waldorf · *by **Waldorf** on Sat 25/Apr/09 8:36pm*

Race Face Diabolus D2 is 33 or 35mm from memory

ants06 · *by **ants06** on Sat 25/Apr/09 9:16pm*

the outland im talking about is less than 30mm stack. ( -reaper- has it now )

Crashchan · *by **Crashchan** on Sat 25/Apr/09 10:54pm*

Spokes wrote:Any who, most stems will be about 40mm. I would be looking at headset change to a flush one. I run a FSA orbit one I think, its 3 years since it was fitted. Even if you fit the flush one on top only.

Thanks Good Idea top only. As I Like how the chris king slackens it out.

Crashchan · *by **Crashchan** on Sat 25/Apr/09 10:56pm*

Waldorf wrote:Race Face Diabolus D2 is 33 or 35mm from memory

That would be cool if I could stick with race face will look into it

Crashchan · *by **Crashchan** on Sat 25/Apr/09 10:58pm*

ants06 wrote:the outland im talking about is less than 30mm stack. ( -reaper- has it now )

Thanks at least I know I am not the only one with the problem and it will still be sweet for Freeride

Spokes · *by **Spokes** on Sun 26/Apr/09 7:51am*

Crashchan wrote:
Spokes wrote:Any who, most stems will be about 40mm. I would be looking at headset change to a flush one. I run a FSA orbit one I think, its 3 years since it was fitted. Even if you fit the flush one on top only.

Thanks Good Idea top only. As I Like how the chris king slackens it out.

Over winter im going to look at making some offset shock reducers to slacken the HA and drop the BB. They have done this over on MTBR and Jeff Strebber has said it will be ok on the vpp also. I will let you know how it works out.

Crashchan · *by **Crashchan** on Sun 26/Apr/09 8:04am*

Spokes wrote:
Crashchan wrote:
Spokes wrote:Any who, most stems will be about 40mm. I would be looking at headset change to a flush one. I run a FSA orbit one I think, its 3 years since it was fitted. Even if you fit the flush one on top only.

Thanks Good Idea top only. As I Like how the chris king slackens it out.

Over winter im going to look at making some offset shock reducers to slacken the HA and drop the BB. They have done this over on MTBR and Jeff Strebber has said it will be ok on the vpp also. I will let you know how it works out.

That sounds great slacken it out abit would be awesome keen to know more about that. thanks Spokes

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