Originally Posted by
usndoc2011
I have to raise the seat up a good bit, and I put in so many spacers (about 20mm) on the handlebar steer-tube, the steertube cracked (I'm assuming from stresses of the longer than usual distance between the headset and stem, resulting in higher than usual torque on the steertube).
I'd rethink the fork replacement and look at a stronger fork. I'm 6'6" and race CX on a Vassago Fisticuff 60cm frame. Check out how far jacked up I've got my seatpost and stem. There's 7" of post showing, and that's a 2.5" (63.5mm) stack of spacers below a 110mm stem. That's a lot of steerer torque, and I've never had a single problem with it through a season of commuting, training on equestrian and MTB trails and about a dozen races.
