I hadn't noticed that. But you could make a ring, cut from an
old steerer tube and use it as a shim.
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia, USA
>
\r?\n> Fred Rednor suggested:
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > Lynn,
\r?\n> > From one of my club's sponsors:
\r?\n> > http://www.bikemannetwork.com/
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > ...and for all the jesting that's done at Nashbar's
\r?\n> expense,
\r?\n> > look at this:
\r?\n> > http://www.nashbar.com/
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Neither of those will work because they clamp to a 1"
\r?\n> diameter tube -
\r?\n> the steerer - not the stem.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> How about shortening the heat tube? Makes the steerer
\r?\n> effectively
\r?\n> longer. Almost any head tube can be shortened by the 1.5 to
\r?\n> 2 mm you
\r?\n> need to use an old (thin) steel Mafac hanger.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Good "pro" bike shops used to have the special cutter needed
\r?\n> to shorten
\r?\n> the head tube while keeping it parallel. Not sure if such
\r?\n> expertise &
\r?\n> tooling is rare or common in bike shops these days, but most
\r?\n> any custom
\r?\n> framebuilder can do it for sure.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Mark Bulgier
\r?\n> Seattle WA USA