Originally Posted by
TheFort
I'm so confused on the 80mm/45 degree stem. I'm looking at the ergotec website. They have a 70mm/45 and even a 55mm/45. Why doesn't anyone make an 80/45? Is there something about that combo that makes it impossible to manufacture?
Why get so hung up on the numbers? If you need 10 mm, change your handlebars. I run the Ergotec Moon Cruiser 31.8 bars myself, with 50 mm of rise, but there are a bunch of bars on that same website with varying degrees of back sweep and rise, they're nice and safe with good German quality and they're cheap. I had a High Charisma 110 mm stem from that website that I used with a Jones bar, and I could have dropped the ends of that bar by 30 mm to make it an 80 mm stem in effect, had I been after an 80 mm stem myself. If you can't find an 80 mm stem, use a 90 mm stem and take 10 mm off your steerer tube, or twist your bars downwards by 10 mm, maybe try not to get hung up on a single measurement and work with what is easily available.