uprightbent - I'm not older by any stretch, I'm in my mid-30's, but I'm still a far cry from my early 20's when I was totally fine being hunched over and tilting my neck way up. That not-inserted-far-enough stem and the bit of rise it gave was fantastic. Far better on the body as a whole for longer rides than my previous bike. That was a 58 with a zero rise stem, so the classic stem that is perfectly horizontal and parallel to the top tube. Those bars, relative to this 61cm Klein, were a full 4 inches lower. Soon as I started riding this bike, I knew I'd never go back to something with bars that low.
This is why I'm converting it to threadless, so I can keep the bars fairly high without having to track down a super tall quill stem, which always looks funny, and to eliminate this weak point.

That aside, brief update on the bike. I've finished doing the teardown on the bike in preparation for the threadless conversion except for the actually removing the headset since I don't have the proper tools at my house. I know I did say I was going to machine the original 1055 headset to make it threadless but, after talking about it with my brother, I'm going to save that headset and just get the correct headset.