Originally Posted by
Korina
Last night my husband and I stripped my MultiTrack for the powdercoater. I plan on replacing the ghodawful flat bar with some nice, shallow rando drops. Problem is, the original 1" quill stem is 120mm, much too long for my short arms, and it's surprisingly difficult to find a replacement that's 60-80mm and will take a modern 31.8mm bar.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Here's a before pic of Roxanne:
Such a pretty paint job.
It seems stems are the hardest part of a conversion. This was built for my GF...she loves it. We used a threaded-to-threadless adapter and then sourced a modern threadless stem. We started with an adjustable stem to get the fit dialed in..we have the fit, but I haven't found a hard(non-adjustable stem) that matches the adjusted stem..though honestly I haven't really made an extensive search yet.
This stem-modeling tool can be a great help:
Stem Comparison Tool | yojimg.net
