Originally Posted by
djudy
Hello again
I am just reporting that I bought the bike yesterday. Guy that sell the bike to me is bike mehanic and he made service to it. After i seen that it is working nice payed 150$ , and I must tell you I am amazed about nice handling and comfortable vibration dumping frame.
I am planing to make nice commuter and maybe a tourer also.
My only concern is that stem is to long and moving center of gravity forward so I am thinking getting shorter one so I can put bullhorn bar on it.
Diameter of the stem at the place that goes in the steerer is 25 mm. Is this standar size?
I will upgrade other components as they break.
Thank you all for your sugestion and comments.
Your steerer appears to be threaded. If you pulled the stem out, you have a quill type stem. These are still very good and you can get an adjustable one that is shorter like in the 80 - 100mm length that will make that bike feel just great. The old one piece quills had a fairly long stem angled up maybe 30 deg or so and that was fine for the smaller frames but if it feels uncomfortable for you as it is now, look into getting one of those shorter adjustable ones.