Originally Posted by
dsbrantjr
Or, the OP might have a quill stem.
True, but the three quill stems I have are all closed clamp which requires everything on the handlebar to be removed to be able to "thread" the handlebar into the clamp. So I don't think quill is an assurance that this is a trivial swap.
As all of us have been saying, a picture of the existing stem and the new one would likely resolve the uncertainties about how easy/hard this is.
- Mark