Techies: I replaced the fork on my 2000 Paramount Ti with a Ritchey WCS carbon with aluminum steerer to add a wider tire. Ritchey allows only 90mm above the headset, so I kept to this length including the stem so I can move the stem up or down, and slide in a K-Edge head unit holder in the stack.
The Ritchey stem arrived with a spacer to fit a 1” steerer, so I decided to stack two of these spacers for the length of the exposed steerer, and then use 1 1/8” spacers to fill the space below and above the stem. The two spacers meet at the middle point of the stem clamp.
Question: is this potentially dangerous? Am I putting undue stress on the steerer?
The two stacked spacers sitting on the steer tube sit 2mm above the top of the uppermost spacer. The compression plug/steerer plug has plenty of thread left to tighten the whole stack. That added 2mm allows me to run a K-edge head unit mount that acts as a spacer.
VeloBouf! What an awesome project you shepharded through.
I bought the frameset n 2000, and built it with Campy 10 speed and Mavic Ksyrium wheels (frame and wheels red). Fifteen years later, I transfered the parts to a carbo Merckx and made the bike a 2x2: Eno White Industries rear hub and double 70’s Campagnolo cranks. This is when I stripped the frameset. I decided to make her a lightweight tourer: more tire clearance, bigger cassette, and silver instead of black for the running gear and cockpit, and using the aforementioned stem and spacer stack (instead of a quill stem) for more options in terms of reach and stack.
