Wanted: Stem bolt

Posted on Wed 16th, July 2008

• #1

robertstrack
Hello,
I recently found my girlfriend a lovely bike from jos, but as she can't handle the drop bars I'm fitting risers to it.
We found this stem, tried to shim it with a coke can but no success, and now the already sketchy bolt is on its last legs, anyone have a suitable bolt or suggestion?
Bars are 25.4 stem 26.8
many thanks
adam

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• #2

Dylan

something like this ?

file the sticky out bit ?

find it here http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product.asp?pf_id=12507&src=froogle
• #3

robertstrack

It's an allen bolt recessed so perhaps that one won't work. What about shimming short of getting the nitto £6 piece of foil? How wrong am I getting it when 2 coils of coke can still means a bolt so tightly torqued that any further and it will be rounded?

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