Originally Posted by
bike_galpal
i mean, stripped bolt for the steerer clamp.......
it might be an easy fix with a few nuts and bolts at the hardware store - but beware, they don't tend to have much fine thread stuff like most bolts on bikes. and i doubt they'd have anything smaller than what you already had to fit thru the hole. i'd sooner opt to go to a bike shop with used parts bins and try to find nuts and bolts there.
Yes, we knew the stripped bolt hole was for the steerer clamp, not the handlebar clamp. It's still not a good idea to use it with only one bolt holding.
As to "fine thread bolts", M5x0.8 is a very common metric standard and most hardware and home stores carry a good selection of metric bolts these days and that size is certainly readily available.
The OP does not have to find a smaller diameter bolt as a replacement. A longer M5x0.8 bolt can be threaded through the damaged area and allowed to project out the other end and then nutted. A larger size bolt (M6x1.0 is the next size up) could be used by drilling and retapping the damaged threads.