Originally Posted by
himespau
Not scrod, but your stem looks like it's sticking a crazy far way out of your steerer/headset. I'm not sure I've seen any that tall other than a technomic. Just about anything will be less tall than that. The stem height is the number you want smaller, not the length, as far as I can tell. Most stems post length (that's the 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130 number), but fewer post their height. It's odd that you'd be bottoming out, but then I've never messed with such a short bike.
It's not just barely in, though. There's a good few inches that its down in there. without unhooked the brake cables, i can pull it out to just about where the minimum insertion line is - can't pull it out enough to see the bolt/wedge.
If you look at my original post you quoted, and follow the link to the Amazon page where I ordered it from, you'll see the stem reach length is 60, and the height is 180 (apparently). I'm guessing it's all in mm, and the other one available on that particular page is 150 height, but if that's just a difference of 30mm - 3 cm, that's obviously not going to do much.
When i get home I'll try to measure how much is sticking out at it's current slammed down as far as it will go position.