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• #2
Are they already taped?
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• #3
if there not taped, just wiggle rotate wiggle, bit like my dance moves. It can be tough, I have used a flat screw driver in the split of the stem to make a bit more room before.
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• #4
No tape. Nice and shiney still.
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• #5
"if there not taped, just wiggle rotate wiggle, bit like my dance moves. It can be tough I have wedged a flat screw driver in the split of the stem to make a bit more room in the past."
Ah. A combination of brute force and technique - neither one is my strong point.
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• #6
This will not work if your stem bolt has a nut on the end rather than a threaded insert in the casting but if your stem is suitable it helps.
Take the bolt out of the stem.
Insert the bolt from the reverse side until it just starts coming through the small gap between the two halfs (if you get what I mean).
Place a five pence peace in the the gap and carry on screwing the bolt in.
This will allow you to spread the stem open slightly. Obviously do not try and open up the stem too far as it is aluminum but it leaves you hands free from having to use a screw driver in one hand. -
• #7
and make sure you're not trying to put a cinelli 26.4 bar in a nitto 25.4 stem
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• #8
This will not work if your stem bolt has a nut on the end rather than a threaded insert in the casting but if your stem is suitable it helps.
Take the bolt out of the stem.
Insert the bolt from the reverse side until it just starts coming through the small gap between the two halfs (if you get what I mean).
Place a five pence peace in the the gap and carry on screwing the bolt in.
This will allow you to spread the stem open slightly. Obviously do not try and open up the stem too far as it is aluminum but it leaves you hands free from having to use a screw driver in one hand.Great, i've been fighting to get the drop bars out out of my nitto stem. This should help.
The bars also have got brakes attached and I can't seem to get these off, they are shimano from the mid 90's. there doesn't seem to be any screw to loosen. How are these brakes removed?
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• #9
pull the brake and take a look from the front, in the gap between the lever and the hood there should be a torx or allen bolt inside that, you undo to loosen the clamp. (I am ssuming they are road brakes for drop bars)
it's hard to explain.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080419160208AAN1163
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• #10
mine were nice and new and shiny before I wiggled them on and then wigged the brake lever on. Now they are new and completely scratched to fuck
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• #11
Thanks for the tips guys. Will get wiggling soon.
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• #12
If you pull the leaver right towards the bar (as if you where pulling hard on the brakes) and look in the gap created there is a bolt with a hex key head (most common) or a Phillips head. Undo this, then slide off leavers.
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• #13
I'll be giving this ago tonight.
Thanks peeps.
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• #14
lube and wipe clean both parts to avoid the scratching...
Great trick Tommy. its more secure then the wedge i have used in the past
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• #15
I lined the stem with electrical tape v. carefully so the blue anodising didn't get scratched. It helped that bars and stem were both Nitto.
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• #16
badly drawn instructions:
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• #17
mine were nice and new and shiny before I wiggled them on and then wigged the brake lever on. Now they are new and completely scratched to fuck
mike you have such a way with words.
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• #18
Success! I now have scratched handlebars. Thanks for all the advice.
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• #19
mike you have such a way with words.
That will be my private school education
Success! I now have scratched handlebars. Thanks for all the advice.
Any time
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• #20
some stem clamps are too wide for drops and its nigh on impossible to force the issue without scratching, bending.
Try opening the clamp with a wide slot screw driver to minimise scratching and give it a go.
Otherwise, get a new stem.
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• #21
some stem clamps are too wide for drops and its nigh on impossible to force the issue without scratching, bending.
Try opening the clamp with a wide slot screw driver to minimise scratching and give it a go.
Otherwise, get a new stem.
hey did you not even notice my fantastic illustration?
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• #22
hey did you not even notice my fantastic illustration?
i actually thought it rather nice :)
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• #23
use a hammer*
*disregard this advice, as i am drunk.
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• #24
badly drawn instructions:
racist
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• #25
haha
First post and possibly a dumb question but...
How do you get drop handlebars onto a quill stem with a handlebar clamp?
I can't get the stem clamp to squeeze round the bends of the drops and am guessing I am approaching the problem the wrong way.