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From memory:
- WD40 to help stop it binding.
- The stem will only go round with the narrow bit of the clamp in a particular position.
- You will need to open the clamp up slightly.
- Swearing a lot.
- It looks like I filed a little off the edge to stop it catching but that might have just happened when wrestling the bars in.
- You have to be rough and it scratches the bars up.
- I forget now, but I think there was a maximum length stem I was going to get round. 100mm went on, but next size up wouldn’t have cleared the bend at the other end (which I’m dreading because I want to put the 120mm on mine).
- Try it with the stem mounted in the bike. It gives you some leverage.
Maybe the answer really is to use a 26.4mm clamp stem and shim it. Every little helps.
- WD40 to help stop it binding.
Jonny69
@marrac
I really have no idea how did you guys put those compact bars in the quill stems lol. That shit looks impossible for me.