2007 Cannondale SystemSix Team Si

What length stem do you need? Have an ARX Ltd in 100mm if you want??? Cheap!

£30?

120mm.

Might be interesting to chuck it on and see what it looks like though.

The seatpost and bars are really nicely finished, and both are very light- I'm a fan of the new 3T stuff.

Also, to manage the transition better you just need a smaller conical spacer or better still a flat top race like this... Chris King will sell you half an inset no probs.

Still makes the head tube/steerer look like a wine bottle with a stem clamped to the neck of the wine bottle though!

It will look way better than that thing you have on there...

or the cane creek headset will do the job without the conical rise

and you can just buy the cane creek top

Do Cane Creek do a 1.25 or 1.5 or whatever it is?

Would be good if you could get this without the ghastly detailing...
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/pro-star-series-mark-cavendish-carbon-road-stem/

I have the shortest one of these 115mm and it weighs a ton. You'd not like it.

My first choice (aesthetically) would be:

Jokes.

Are you trying to find versions of your bike where people have switched the stem? I've just tried to do that. It's fucking hard, almost everyone's kept the original... which says something.

But I stand by my point. If that ^ one had a black stem (or even better the Crank Bros one I posted) it would work. The headset cap creates the transition.

I have the same bike and have the crank bro stem, and sadly, i dont see how it will fit onto drop bars. Its designed for mountain bike risers. It doesnt have a removable faceplate sadly.

Cane Creek do all manner of headset top and bottom cups for all different sized head tubes

You buy the top and bottom cups separately, eg for a 440 head tube you can buy the cups to run a 1 1/8 steerer tube or a tapered one.

Chris King allegedly sell separate top and bottom cups, but when I tried to buy one it turned out to be nearly impossible, hence why the 29er now has a King Caner headset - I had bought a Chris King inset headset when I was using a 1 1/8th fork but when I upgraded I needed a new bottom cup. Bromley Bikes (the CK importer) were not interested in helping me. CK told me to order one from Asipire Velotech but failed to mention that they had none to sell to Aspire.

After much dicking around and waiting I just bought a CC bottom cup.

My first choice (aesthetically) would be:

Problem with this stem - It would crush the steerer. This type of stem shouldn't be used with a carbon steerer. The wedge clamp design puts a large amount of pressure on a small area, fine with a metal steerer but not carbon.

My first choice (aesthetically) would be:
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I'd still keep the current one. It's unique, and works.

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Stiffness arrives in the post:

High Modulus Carbon fork from a SuperSix, which will have the steerer cut down to lose the current stack of spacers.

Aim for this is to stiffen up the front end as much as is practical.

weight difference?

Unknown until I pull the other fork out, I'll chuck the others on the scale when I do.

At the moment I've just finished rewiring the bathroom, and am about to fix aquapanels to the wall, so that'll happen later.

EDIT: that's not the point for this bit though, the important thing was to go from "standard" carbon to the Hi Mod to get as stiff a front end as I can.

What's the weight difference on the new bathroom?

Hugely heavier

Can't you just piss in a bucket in the corner of your bedroom? Like the olden days.

I have a carbon gazunder.

The SystemSix for is 1 gram lighter than the SuperSix fork, interestingly.

Now how do I get the bloody head set race off the SystemSix fork?

Hammer&screwdriver.

so why the change of fork? is there any actual difference other than the decals?

from a talk I went to with Ben Serotta there can be quite some variation in the weight of carbon frames and forks so a 1g difference is well within manufacturing tolerances