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David E. Belcher
Guest
Off to collect my race bike after work today now that the bike shop
have managed to remove my stem. It was always a tight fit with the old
Cr-Mo fork, but got well & truly jammed in the Time Sprint carbon forks
I recently purchased and fitted. Turns out that the fact that it was a
painted stem (not a cheap & nasty one either, but a Synthesis-style 3T
one) was to blame - the extra thickness of the coat of paint made it
wedge tight in the steerer, and once the mechanics at the shop heated
it following decapitation of the stem with a saw (allowing them to
separate fork from h/set & frame) - to burn off the coat of paint - it
came out without any grief! Needless to say, the replacement stem is a
nice plain silver one (3T again, an actual Synthesis this time)....
Moral of the story - if you prefer traditional quill stems, don't buy
one with a painted shaft!
David Belcher
have managed to remove my stem. It was always a tight fit with the old
Cr-Mo fork, but got well & truly jammed in the Time Sprint carbon forks
I recently purchased and fitted. Turns out that the fact that it was a
painted stem (not a cheap & nasty one either, but a Synthesis-style 3T
one) was to blame - the extra thickness of the coat of paint made it
wedge tight in the steerer, and once the mechanics at the shop heated
it following decapitation of the stem with a saw (allowing them to
separate fork from h/set & frame) - to burn off the coat of paint - it
came out without any grief! Needless to say, the replacement stem is a
nice plain silver one (3T again, an actual Synthesis this time)....
Moral of the story - if you prefer traditional quill stems, don't buy
one with a painted shaft!
David Belcher