FOMTOR 31.8 Stem 60mm 7 Degree Light-weight Bike Handlebar Stem MTB Stem Suitable for Mountain Bike Road Bike BMX MTB (31.8 x 60mm)

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What you can’t see from the pictures is that the Spoon is forged, which means it’s a lot stronger than, say, a machined stem. That’s why with our 2 year warranty (starting from the date of purchase) we will replace any defective item that does not live up to our standards of quality and unbeatable value. Putting the saddle so far forward will affect your pedaling too - part of the bike fit should have included fore/aft saddle position.

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Plus, as is the trend with most mountain bike stems, it’s ultra-short for sharp steering on super-technical downhill courses. As you’d perhaps expect from a bike designed to straddle road and off-road, the stems found on gravel bikes normally sit somewhere between mountain bikes and road bikes in terms of length. That way the full length of the stem clamp engages with the steerer, reducing the chance of damage to the top of it.

The bar and steerer clamping sections of the stem also intersect to create an effective length of just over 20mm.

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The Giant has a 100mm stem on just now and longer reach bars, you can see with getting a 60mm stem I would get the reach down to 510mm and with compact bars the hoods would be closer too, I think 10mm here and there will be fine, I'm not an inflexible cripple yet. For steerer tubes, the typical diameter is 1-1/8in, although some bikes will have a 1-1/4in steerer diameter.The use of stainless steel bolts is a nice touch, as is the modern use of a zero-gap faceplate design.