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Eurastus
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You guys have been quite helpful to me over the past few weeks.
I appreciate all the info on the extra-small road bike for my daughter I got last week. We ended
up finding a great little 44 cm Fuji for a great price. The bike fits her legs perfectly;
extension is right-on.
However, the bike came with a 90 mm Ritchey Comp threadless stem and that results in a cockpit that
is several inches too long. I'd like to get a shorter stem but have not had luck finding extra-short
threadless road stems. By extra short, I mean 35-50 mm. I have been able to find 60 mm. The fork is
1" but the stem the bike came with is a 1 1/8" that uses a shim...seems to work fine. The shim use
should give me more options to choose from. I've seen several mountain bike downhill stems as short
as I'd like...though they seem very beefy (means heavy), expensive (like $99), and have the 25.4 mm
clamp. The Ritchey bars on this bike are 25.8 mm (according to www.ritcheylogic.com) though my
electronic micrometer measures them at 25.7 mm.
Any leads on an extra-short, road-specific stem out there? I'd like to keep this to a reasonable
price...like less than $40 as I see her growing out of the extra-short stem in a couple of years. I
have no doubt the 90 will go back on eventually. I strongly suspect that 25.7 is close enough to
25.4 that I can use a mountain stem if I have to.
Any leads appreciated,
Eurastus.
I appreciate all the info on the extra-small road bike for my daughter I got last week. We ended
up finding a great little 44 cm Fuji for a great price. The bike fits her legs perfectly;
extension is right-on.
However, the bike came with a 90 mm Ritchey Comp threadless stem and that results in a cockpit that
is several inches too long. I'd like to get a shorter stem but have not had luck finding extra-short
threadless road stems. By extra short, I mean 35-50 mm. I have been able to find 60 mm. The fork is
1" but the stem the bike came with is a 1 1/8" that uses a shim...seems to work fine. The shim use
should give me more options to choose from. I've seen several mountain bike downhill stems as short
as I'd like...though they seem very beefy (means heavy), expensive (like $99), and have the 25.4 mm
clamp. The Ritchey bars on this bike are 25.8 mm (according to www.ritcheylogic.com) though my
electronic micrometer measures them at 25.7 mm.
Any leads on an extra-short, road-specific stem out there? I'd like to keep this to a reasonable
price...like less than $40 as I see her growing out of the extra-short stem in a couple of years. I
have no doubt the 90 will go back on eventually. I strongly suspect that 25.7 is close enough to
25.4 that I can use a mountain stem if I have to.
Any leads appreciated,
Eurastus.