Hey all,
As I was awaken up from deep sleep by furious ringing of the postman on my doorbell I realised that my Syntace stem has arrived in the mail. I was playing around with the stem (as with any new piece of kit) and thought I would clamp Extralite handlebar for my next build in it just for the fun of it.
The first thing I noticed is that handlebar fit between those 2 rubber pads is EXTREMELY tight. Handlebar barely goes in at all before it gets tough to push it in and I tried to gently force it in with my hand but it would only go about half way.
I realised that only way to force it in properly is to tighten the 2 clamps and they would gently push it in, so I proceeded to carefully tighten the bolts. After a bit it was in nice and snug and after admiring the parts for a while it was time to take it appart.
As I pulled off the two handlebar clamps and struggled to get the bar out of the grip of those rubbers I noticed that there was a nice gouge on my handlebar from the main stem body (from when the bar was being clamped down). The fit is so tight that the edge took off some clearcoat off from CF.
Anyway I just wated to see if this was mainstream experience with the stem? Structurally handlebar is ok and aesthetically the scratches left bother me a little (but can probably hide them) but I can't help but wonder if this is a normal thing? When it was clamped in fully the fit of the bar to stem seemed snug and just right so its likely just designed this way but just thought I'd ask.
I think I'll just leave the stem and bar alone until its time to put the bike together.
As I was awaken up from deep sleep by furious ringing of the postman on my doorbell I realised that my Syntace stem has arrived in the mail. I was playing around with the stem (as with any new piece of kit) and thought I would clamp Extralite handlebar for my next build in it just for the fun of it.
The first thing I noticed is that handlebar fit between those 2 rubber pads is EXTREMELY tight. Handlebar barely goes in at all before it gets tough to push it in and I tried to gently force it in with my hand but it would only go about half way.
I realised that only way to force it in properly is to tighten the 2 clamps and they would gently push it in, so I proceeded to carefully tighten the bolts. After a bit it was in nice and snug and after admiring the parts for a while it was time to take it appart.
As I pulled off the two handlebar clamps and struggled to get the bar out of the grip of those rubbers I noticed that there was a nice gouge on my handlebar from the main stem body (from when the bar was being clamped down). The fit is so tight that the edge took off some clearcoat off from CF.
Anyway I just wated to see if this was mainstream experience with the stem? Structurally handlebar is ok and aesthetically the scratches left bother me a little (but can probably hide them) but I can't help but wonder if this is a normal thing? When it was clamped in fully the fit of the bar to stem seemed snug and just right so its likely just designed this way but just thought I'd ask.
I think I'll just leave the stem and bar alone until its time to put the bike together.