Good afternoon everybody, I recently bought a VO 31.8 quill stem in order to try Salsa Cowchipper bars on my Sam Hillborne. I took it on some trails last week and felt some clunking around when I would go over rocks/bumps, and I could also feel a clunk when I hopped up curbs, hit potholes, etc. in the city. When I changed out the stem, I also regreased the headset. My first thought was that I didn't tighten the headset fully, but 1) when I hold the front brake and rock the bike, there's no perceptible clunk, and 2) I *over*tightened the headset to see if that would eliminate the clunk, and it did not.
I loosened the stem to exacerbate the knockin' around and took some videos. It's hard to tell, but in these two videos <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2ksVVUcS1fFLU03Nzd0TTlHODQ> you can see a minor ~1mm rock back and forth as I rock the handlebars, no matter the height of the stem. When the stem is tight, I can't rock it back and forth that easily, but that subtle knockin' around is noticeable when I hop curbs, etc. I had a Noodle/Technomic cockpit on the bike before and there was no wiggle/knock/clunk. The only difference between this cockpit setup and the Technomic setup is that I removed the canti brake hanger from the stem spacer stack because I also changed the brakes to V brakes. Has anyone experienced this before? Found any solutions? I thought I'd dig into the collective knowledge of this group before reaching out to VO about a warranty or something. Thank you! Erik, Philly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/cc560954-f703-4279-86cb-7a9cf81b3877%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
