On my current setup, I have the super-tall Nitto Technomic stem, because it makes my 51-year-old neck and shoulders feel so much better to put the bars up above the seat. I'm installing a new threaded fork, for a number of reasons, and as a NOS fork, uncut, the steerer is quite a bit longer than the steerer on the current fork. If I leave the new fork uncut, I could put a bunch of spacers into the new threaded headset that I will be installing and then use a stem that is not as tall as the Nitto Technomic, but still achieve the approximate same bar height. I figure the advantage to this is the lightness of alloy spacers compared to the extra length of the tall technomic stem. And I am guessing that the aesthetics might be better with a long steer with spacers instead of a cut steer in a more flush headset with that nerdy-old-man-tall Technomic.

If I go the spacers route, will it look crazy or ugly? And is there a limit to the amount of spacers you can stack on a threaded fork headset? The long steerer has plenty of threading depth on it, so I'm ok with threads if I must cut it, but I would rather not cut it if I can get away with it.

Comments, please?