That drawing is wrong; if your quill stem hits the butt of the steerer tube, something is wrong.
I'm sure that the diagram is illustrating what happens when you have a stuck stem, not what happens when you've installed a stem correctly.
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I'm sure that the diagram is illustrating what happens when you have a stuck stem, not what happens when you've installed a stem correctly.