Stem with a small stack height?

[pete_mcc]

Probably find that decent steel ahead stems like the salsa are lower than a majority of alloy/ti ones. Unfortunately I'm in a hotel and can't get to my shed for a bit.....

 

[stevet1]

I went through a similar thing with a set of Ti forks I wanted to use, the lowest stack headset I found was a race face real seal one.

 

[tintin40]

How about getting the steerer made longer?? I sent mine off to a German company and i got it back a week later is cost about £58

 

[hamster]

For a low headset try Campagnolo Road ones. They are very strong so should be fine.

 

[Carsten]

I've just measured a Cane Creek S2, and that is about 23mm. That's 6mm shorter than the one you have, gives you 34mm for the stem (the same as a Pace stem. )

23mm sounds very low. Cane Creek lists 27mm on their web site but it seems to be a 1". the 1 1/8" are a tad longer, 27.4mm. Campa Record 1 1/8 ahead has 24.5mm stack height.


Carsten

 

[Tommylurve]

Thanks for your wisdom chaps.
My Cane Creek headset seems not to have such a massive stack at 29mm compared to others, so I'll go for a new stem: Pace or Ringle.
With a height of 32-34mm that should only leave me a 9-11mm gap and hopefully when the starnut is tightened it will pull it together further still.
So has anyone got a Pace or Ringle zooka stem going?

 

[Carsten]

Thanks for your wisdom chaps.
My Cane Creek headset seems not to have such a massive stack at 29mm compared to others, so I'll go for a new stem: Pace or Ringle.
With a height of 32-34mm that should only leave me a 9-11mm gap and hopefully when the starnut is tightened it will pull it together further still.
So has anyone got a Pace or Ringle zooka stem going?

Pace and Ringle both have that wedge style clamp like Thomson and Syncros right? In that case i would think that it is not safe to use them as the wedge would not sit fully on the steerer tube. The least you should do in that case is adding a short piece of steerer tube at the top so the clamp does not deform. Still, i wouldnt ride such a setup. Especially Ringle stuff is well know to not really last too long (read fragile) and what you are planning will put even more stress on the clamp area.

Syntace has stems with normal external clamp that dont need too much steerer tube (32mm) and i think they gave the ok to use it with only 2/3 of the clamp sitting on the steerer tube IF the rest is filled with a short piece of steerer tube so that the clamp does not deform.

http://www.syntace.com/index.cfm?pid=3&pk=1473

Some things just don't work.

Carsten

 

[Tommylurve]

Hi Carsten, just had a look at your link and it says the minimum fork insert is 32mm for that particular stem and the stack height is 38mm?
I would have thought that with the steerer being 2/3 into the stem the single bolt in the middle would sufice. I suppose it is just down to whethter I'm prepared to take the risk.