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Was wondering what is the shortest stem available in the UK preferably with a bit of rise I was thinking of something like 25-30mm. The Shortest I have found is 35mm with no rise.
Mondraker have a stem that mounts directly on the top of the steerer.
Edit: found a thread about them on here ...
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/mondrakers-centre-stem
azonic did a zero length stem about 15 yrs ago.
You could just turn a normal stem round and have it pointing towards you instead of away.
You could just turn a normal stem round and have it pointing towards you instead of away.
Then run them it with these bars;
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You could just turn a normal stem round and have it pointing towards you instead of away.
Well as you decided to chip in this would actually be for an El Guapo V3 frame and that 35mm stem I mentioned is the On One El Guapo do they go together well?
In theory the shortest you could ,make a conventional stem is 28mm half that's the radius of a 28.6mm steerer plus the radius of a 25.4 bar pluses 1mm so they don't clash, 31.3 with an oversized bar.
Or you can go for old school silly stack height:
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The Old style Spank Spike is 35mm with a pretty good rise.
Well as you decided to chip in this would actually be for an El Guapo V3 frame and that 35mm stem I mentioned is the On One El Guapo do they go together well?
Designed to. Lovely combo with wide bars.
Why the need for such a short stem? Do you have T Rex arms?
Well there are a couple of reasons I recently went from narrow bar 600mm and long stem 100mm to a more modern 700mm bar and 60mm stem it made a real difference. However I'm about to get a new frame and as I'm looking to get the large it will have a little longer tt/reach than I have now so hopefully a nice short stem will work. The other thing is that I think it is at least worth giving it a go to see how it feels.