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@Skülly
First, carefully check the ferrule is gonna be sitting sweetly in that clamp. You don't want to ruin things early on with a sticky hole situation. Next, you gotta ease those bars in nice and steady. I hope you haven't been stupid enough to wrap the tape yet - this aint a front loader young Feller-me-lad. Lastly you want to sink that allen key where you just know it's going to do some good, having made sure your steerer's sitting snug and straight under that lightly oiled stem-collar. It's gonna be so stiff and so beautiful, not like that old-fashioned stem-love your mummy & daddy practiced ... back then it was pretty, but it was way too floppy when you got out of the saddle for the big finish.