Making a handlebar

Posted on Thu 8th, September 2016

Page of 3

First Prev

• #51

ough in reply to @🅑🅐🅣🅣

Shit, you reckon steerer might have suffered damage? That'd suck. Might put it apart and investigate over the weekend. There's no noise or anything weird to report in the past weeks, and I've been riding it daily. Hopefully it was just a bit of stress on the headset, or something.

I'm just annoyed with the stem adaptor setup. Keen to find a front-loading quill stem, 120mm or longer, with a bit of rise. Easy, then.
• #52

🅑🅐🅣🅣

I think it's worth unscrewing headset to find out ...
• #53

ough in reply to @🅑🅐🅣🅣

Took it apart, all good. Cleaned, regreased, assembled. Satisfying.
• #54

TM in reply to @ough

Sweet. You got a nicer drive side pic?
• #55

edscoble in reply to @🅑🅐🅣🅣

Er... lowering stem stopped the metallic chomping sound?

Sound very much like the stem adaptor is simply set way too high to begin with.
• #56

ough in reply to @edscoble

Possibly. It's inserted an inch more than the indicated minimum, but perhaps this indication doesn't take into account such a long stem and wide bars.

In any case, there's a new stem on its way. Will get rid of the adaptor + ahead setup. Maybe then it'll be time for a good picture, @TM.
• #57

ough

I just won one of these:

So excited! Probably means the diy bars will leave in a cupboard for the time being. I will take a picture of the bike before changing cockpit.

Page of 3

First Prev

Post a reply
- Bold
- Italics
- Link
- Image
- List
- Quote
- code
- Preview
Formatting Help

Don't worry about formatting, just type in the text and we'll take care of making sense of it. We will auto-convert links, and if you put asterisks around words we will make them bold.

Tips:

Create headers by underlining text with ==== or ----

To *italicise* text put one asterisk each side of the word

To **bold** text put two asterisks each side of the word

Embed images by entering:
![](https://www.google.co.uk/images/srpr/logo4w.png)
That's the hard one: exclamation, square brackets and then the URL to the image in brackets.

* Create lists by starting lines with asterisks

1. Create numbered lists by starting lines with a number and a dot

> Quote text by starting lines with >

Mention another user by @username

For syntax highlighting, surround the code block with three backticks:

```
Your code goes here
```
Just like Github, a blank line must precede a code block.

If you upload more than 5 files we will display all attachments as thumbnails.

For a full reference visit the Markdown syntax.