I was test fitting Nitto RM016N "Mustache" handlebars to a Nitto "Dirt 
Drop" stem, and doing so marred the handlebar's clamp area because the stem 
was just a little too small for a slip fit.  Not much, just a tiny bit, but 
I thought, "Wait, What?!"

Both the bars and stem were prominently marked 26mm and the bars measured 
1.024-inches (26mm=1.0236 inches, a nominal 4 ten-thousandths less than my 
bars measured).

Oh well, even Nitto has manufacturing tolerances, or they wouldn't also 
sell stem spreaders.  On the other hand, I need to check out the carbon 
fiber friction paste others have mentioned, because I have another bar-stem 
set that slip a little, even though again the numbers match and they should 
mate.

Trouble with the integrated bar-stem system is that I like to fine-tune the 
tilt of the bars to suit my (no longer mint condition) wrists.

Eric, Spokane

P.S. Mandatory Rivendell content: these were all for my Appaloosa.


On Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 12:37:06 PM UTC-7, jeff perry wrote:
>
> Is anyone else experiencing slipping Bosco bars? . . . [snip]  Anyone else 
> experiencing similar problems?

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