much easier to the stem and bars of the steerer tube(fork). When putting your bike together use a locking spacer as your first spacer, and you do not have to worry about headset adjustment. If you have a handlebar bag mount, taking the bars off the stem gets even more complicate. If you have canti brakes the brake bracket acts as a locking spacer.

The locking spacer can be seen on the bottom of the stack of spacers. The headset stays in adjustment, and removing the bars only requires loosening the 2 stem bols, and the star nut bolt.



With a handle bar bag mount it is much harder to get at the 4 bar bolts, and you have to loosen the bag mount in the process.