of course.... when the stem is stacked onto of piles of spacers it looks plain ugly to me. The pillar that looks like a giraffes neck looks like you've bought the wrong frame geo. Also its even more ugly with the stem placed in middle or slammed to the bottom with a spacers stacked above it, the stump it leaves sticking out hurts my eyes. The the day i bought my bike i removed all but one small spacer and took a hacksaw to the head tube. Much happier.