Hey,

Just bought a shorter stem and received it today.
I have an 1 1/4 diameter and the stem has that diameter.

The only thing is that it came with an "adapter" that seems to reduce to the diameter to 1 1/8 (still at work, so only made rough measurements).

So my guess would be to remove it to mount it on my fork. As I said, I haven't tried with any tools yet, but just loosening the bolts did not allow me to remove it by hand (and it did not even move a bit), so what are my options?

Weird thing is also that this "adapter" does not go all the way down the stem, just half of it as you can see on the picture.
Almost makes me think someone at the store tried to force an half-adapter in the stem and gave up for the second half.



As I said, I haven't tried applying some real force yet, so I might just as well extract it easily, but not sure,...

Whadayathink?