Excuse the poor photo, but it relates to some of the discussion on this thread. When I built this bike, I planned on leaving the steerer tube on this Long Haul Trucker uncut until I had the fit dialed in. This was almost 2 years ago, and it still is not cut Most stock bikes come with the steerer tubes already cut to some hypothetically "correct" height. The only direction the bars can go are down without using some radically angled stem or other "make do" component. Even then the amount of bar height adjustment is limited.



Just add spacers above the stem, with the last spacer a few mm's above the top of the steerer tube to facilitate headset adjustment. I may get around to cutting it someday.