A new fork or getting the stem remnant out? When I put the stem on I was pretty stingy with the grease, this wouldn't of happened if it wasnt for using this bike on the trainer indoors (no fan to boot), the amount of old salty dried up sweat everywhere was pretty amazing actually. I tried soaking it a few days with PB blaster but it just never cut it and I ended up chopping the stem off to free it from the bike. If it wasnt for the wedge trapped in the steerer I think I'd have luck sticking a pipe of some sort in from the bottom and punching/hammering the rest of the stem out.

In other news I de-winterized my GT Force. I couldn't bring myself to wash the frame cause it just looked too good:



Who puts a almost complete dura ace group on a crappy 6061 aluminum frame anyways?
The bar tape is by ambrossio and a pretty close match to the frame color, just a tad darker, but hey!

What year is the GT road bike?

Dump the steerer tube in lye. No-brainer.

-Kurt

Not too sure.. I'm sure someone could chime in, I would guess its gotta be mid 90s at the earliest. I pulled the frame out of a dumpster behind a bike shop almost a year ago, didnt appear to have ever been ridden, making it my only "new" bike ive owned that no else owned beforehand since I was a teenager riding a xmart mountain bike.


cudak888: good solution, but I think I would have a hard time finding lye around here, stuff is probably outlawed in Canada.

Are they both (stem and fork) aluminum?

One thing I would suggest is to place the steering tube on a vise. Spray around the stem with appropriate solvent. Grab the stem with a vice grip and give it a good go. If there is a venting hole underneath the crown, spray from there, too.

Fork looks like chromed steel to me.

Never had the vise trick work, especially not after cutting it. If it didn't come off without cutting, the vise grips aren't going to work - end of story.

-Kurt

A new fork. 1" threaded CF, be patient, they come up on CL, or I have a blue Serotta.

Here's the way I do this for both stems and seat posts. It takes about an hour...

https://www.mytenspeeds.com/My_TenSpe...troduction.htm

Works every time and with NO damage or DANGER to the frame or forks. If you just go the twist like crazy route, serious damage might well occur.

Hope this is a help.

I thought about the hacksaw trick but a blade won't fit in the stem hole I have, it was an SR stem and the aluminum is a lot thicker then a lighter more expensive stem.

not my brightest moment, but I figured Id try and drill holes down the stem to try and replicate the hacksaw idea, only on one side my drilling wasn't straight and the drill ended up starting to go through the steerer at the threads.. thats the end of that fork, and the miele until I find a replacement fork.