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Old 06-10-14 | 02:42 PM
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amgarcia
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From: Austin, TX

Bikes: Ciocc Designer 84, 1988 Trek 520

Minimum Insertion to Bar Height Ratio

Hello all!

My wife rides a 1984 Trek 660 road bike. She's not a fan of drop bars despite my attempts, so we switched her to mustache bars. The consensus seems that you have to get mustache bars up high (and she agrees). This is where we're running into a problem.

I had a Nitto Technomic Deluxe stem laying around, but it bottoms out in the steerer tube butting on her very small frame. I'm looking for a quills stem that minimizes the minimum insertion but maximizes the height of the bars.

Basically, the ratio of minimum insertion to bar height should be small.

Any recommendations, noting that the Technomic Deluxe is a failure? Any hard numbers (maybe from stems laying around) would be useful.

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