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Had one of these on Monday. Was tinkering with my bike over the weekend, fitting a new headset and some other stuff, and didn't put the bike back together. Monday came and I had to rush out, so fitted it all back but forgot to tighten the stem!
Turned onto the main road near my house and steering went to f*ck, but juuuust about controlled it and stopped to tighten...could have been way messy though!
Was amazing it didn't loosen sooner, but thankful it didn't as I was riding down a big ass hill fixed gear...thank God!
Lesson learnt anyway..give a bit more time to assemble bike! :-s