Originally Posted by
auchencrow
It's hard to get an appreciation for those two gouges from the pics Fenway, but if it were mine, I'd just radius them so as to discourage any stress risers, and ride it.
(...Then again, I'm still riding my AVA death stem

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We will probably crash and burn together, my friend.
I did have an alloy handlebar go once near the stem insertion.

Luckily I was too young at that point to appreciate all the possibilities.