Originally Posted by
frankenmike
The Ritchey Carbon fork installation instructions say a spacer above the stem is "preferred."
Agreed. But that's only if there is some steerer there to put the spacer on to support it. Currently as cut and configured my steerer is below the top of my stem ( although apparently not quite low enough for the compression plug/ top cap to bottom out and lie flush. I could get some steerer to stick out but would have to change my stack of spacer underneath the stem to do that as per my option 3 in my previous post.