Originally Posted by mihlbach

Flip your stem over and remove some of those spacers.

I can't understand why people will run a mile of spacers just to have a stem as close to horizontal as possible. A flipped down stem with a lot of spacers not only looks really dumb, it is structurally inferior to flipping the stem up and using fewer spacers. A flipped up stem with fewer spacers may not look as awesome as you might like, but you certainly will look less like a clueless poseur. It will also be stiffer and lighter.