Not to be rude, but why do you need to keep your 25.4 stem besides cost? Could you get away with the Nitto Technomic, which is still a nice enough stem? I definitely think that taking material off the Albastaches is a bad idea. Or maybe someone has a 26.0mm stem that would work for you. I might have a 3TTT in 26.0mm in the parts bin that I was going to put on my Peugeot PX-10 w moustache bars, but it was way too low so I went with a Nitto Technomic deluxe. Ryan in Winnipeg, MB On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:29:54 PM UTC-6, iamkeith wrote:
> I've been building up a really special bike project this winter, but > just hit a snag. It was intended to serve somewhere in the space between > a mountain bike and a road bike, for fast rides on bumpy roads & trails, > more mountain than road. Having *finally* dialed-in and become > completely enamored with the original moustache bars on my road bike last > year, I thought that Albastache bars might be the perfect thing for this > build: wider, less reach, and less drop. But, as I prepared to order them > from Riv, I discovered (as most of you probably already knew) that they > only come in 26.0 clamp diameter. > > Darn it! I really need to keep my 25.4 stem. > > Has anybody ever had or heard of in success reducing the diameter of the > clamp area on a bar like this? They have the extra aluminum sleeve, so I > don't think the bar integrity would be compromised. But I don't have any > idea how to do it evenly so that there's still a nice round section. > Probably just file and sand, I guess? My stem is welded steel, so it could > conform to a slightly irregular shape better than a forged one could. > > Re-sale-ability be damned, is this a bad idea? Likewise, has anybody > heard rumors of Riv eventually releasing these in both clamp size > options? Thoughts appreciated... > > > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
