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My vote is for quills stem adapter, spacer to set the height without making the stem look anaemic, cheapy eBay stem and Ergotec/Humpert bars in whatever sweep & rise is your favour:
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Planning to change the cockpit on my 80s Dawes Galaxy (currently VO porteur bar / bar-end shifters) to something like this, more suitable for day rides.
Which quill adapter are you using?
Anyone know which bars could still work with bar-end shifters (diameter but also geometry, ie. not pointing out too much?)
Also looking for brake levers and 3 x 7 trigger shifters (if bar-end wouldn’t work) - anyone got some? -
I bought a 22.2mm quill stem adapter and it just too big to fit down the Raleigh Ascender's steerer. I didn't anticipate that it (the bike) would be non-standard. Even Sheldon Brown's site says that of all the incompatibility woes with old Raleighs, stem diameter should not be one of them.
I just measured the old quill stem and it comes up more like 20.9mm or 21mm. The inside of the steerer is about 21.3mm. A search on eBay suggests to me that some old BMXes such as the Raleigh Burner Mk 2 have 21.1mm quills. Apparently my unassuming bike does, too.
So looks like I can't use a quill stem adapter, after all. Will either give up, or try to bodge my newly-arrived Ergotec handlebars onto the old stem.
Update: decided to go the bodge route and after much strenuous effort, managed to bend the single-bolt quill stem open and closed again around the (closed loop) clamping area of the Humpert Ergotec handlebar. I'm not proud of myself, it wasn't big and it wasn't clever, but it seems to have worked.
meneer
AntSel
Thanks for the suggestion. They look nice; but at £59 are possibly a bit too spendy for this bike