Liesl: , Sorry to hear of your news. In light of your nice bikes I would suggest a stem adapter like the VO. You can attach a stem with removable faceplate to it and it's silver so with a little tape it doesn't look too bad. David
<https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6T8uWT-pkTk/UVTVLccCweI/AAAAAAAAAYI/re-QRzKfHEo/s1600/VO+stem+adapter.JPG> On Thursday, March 28, 2013 7:04:49 PM UTC-4, Liesl wrote: > > Friends, today I found out that my neck officially has some vertebral > problems, and I think I'm gonna need to swap out my mustache bars on a few > bikes (argh!) so I can have a more upright position. I have an old mountain > bike that has Alba's on it. That's my fisrt project: steal them and > install them on the protobleriot. BUT the alba bars (all nicely taped and > shellacked, etc) are on a threadless mountain bike stem. I could easily > take the front plate off the the stem and move it oh-so-easy but I need a > threaded stem with a face plate (I hope I am using the right terms here so > that I am explaining clearly...). I found a cheap ugly Nashbar > > http://www.nashbar.com/bikes/Product_10053_10052_174788_-1___ > > Is there another more elegant quill solution that has a front plate on it? > > Or should I just bite it and disassemble and unwind the tape and get out > the goo-gone and...and...and...do the whole mess? > > I wait with bated breath for your collective wisdom! > > your friend, > Liesl > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
