View Single Post
Old 04-28-22 | 05:20 PM
  #11  
rumrunn6's Avatar
rumrunn6
Senior Member
15 Anniversary
Community Builder
 
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 30,475
Likes: 4,558
From: 25 miles northwest of Boston

Bikes: Bottecchia Sprint, GT Timberline 29r, Marin Muirwoods 29er, Trek FX Alpha 7.0

Originally Posted by Iride01
As Rolla and tyrion said, you need to get a stem that is angled upward and/or some new bars that have a rise to them.... riser bars.The thing coming out of the head tube of your bike is the steerer tube that is attached to the fork. They do make extenders for the steerer tube, but I wouldn't recommend them unless you are a very gentle rider and never yank on the bars as you power up a hill.Not that I know they are problematic from any experience. Just that they don't seem right to me.
I do have 1st hand experience with stem risers. used one on a commuter I tortured for years. it never budged. got one now on my road bike, same thing, works great, solid, fast & easy to install. but it doesn't provide the forward adjustment the OP mentioned
rumrunn6 is offline  
Reply