Originally Posted by
jdbassi
mm okay, thanks. I just have trouble sliding my bars on quills, especially the one in the picture. It was old when I got the bars, and the person i bought it from just gave me that stem. it was a 29.5mm stem going into a 26.0. is that bad?
It's pretty bad, yeah. You should get a shim, although 29.5 is an unusual clamp diameter. Is that an old standard or something?
EDIT: Are you sure it's 29.5mm? I don't see that size listed on Sheldon:
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/cribsheet-handlebars.html