Originally Posted by
tarwheel
Kind of a silly question. Obviously I wanted to raise the height of my handlebar. I used the extender because I wanted my handlebar height even with my saddle height. That is what works for me. If I run my handlebars any lower, I have all sorts of problems due to a neck injury as a child.
I could have gotten by with 1-2 cm of spacers and might still do that. But I had the extender and wanted to see how it worked.
I'm not following either. With a threaded stem, I'm not understanding the purpose of the extender. I'm thinking that your bar height would be the same with or without the extension -- considering the extender shouldn't count towards total insertion depth of the stem (since it's not structural).