[Closed] is this safe?

I'd ride it, but I wouldnt recommend others did.

No help am I?

I don't like the look of it personally. But I am not an engineer. 🙂

I'd imagine you are clamping the steerer enough for it to be safe but I'd not ride a bike like that - just knowing it was like that would gnaw (fanks Stoner!) away at my soul - swap the stem

I wouldn't ride it. Get an FSA stem...they are low height

gnaw

not for me, look at ritchey wcs, they have a lowish stack.

I'd say not personally.

if you had to ask I'd suggest you know it's not

No, and you know its not really

Well maybe down the shops it'll be strong enough, but if you want to push it a bit then I wouldn't ride it If I were you (or me)

i think you are right, i'm not a gnarly rider but i am a big lad!, so swapped for one that's a better fit (but too short!!) for now

no and i rode Lee quarry (twice)with my main suspension bolt snapped and gaffer tapped up

Mine is exactly the same and I have ridden incident free since december - keep meaning to change it to a thomson though!

how does the thomson clamp the steerer?

The thomson stem - erm don't really know what your asking - but it has a lower stack height than my current stem

Thomson Elite stem clamps in the centre, looks like a perfect excuse to get one...

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fingerbike - how does the bolt and circley thing clamp the stem?

thomson elite has a stack height of 42.7mm the X2 is 36mm I've had a similar problem recently.

[i]Thomson Elite stem clamps in the centre, looks like a perfect excuse to get one...[/i]

...as long as you're using standard bars or else its the X4 which is the same design as the OP stem and not that low either.

Hopefully this pic will give an idea, of the clamping system.
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cheers finger bike, that's clearer.

i can't see the first pic on the thread, it says photo unavailable... i'm intrigued now - what's unsafe and why? 😀

i can't see the first pic on the thread, it says photo unavailable... i'm intrigued now - what's unsafe and why?

I can't see it either but I guess there's a shortage of steerer going on

yeah that's what i figured, i just want to see the tolerances we're talking!

steerer was visibly below the top bolt of a two bolt stem clamp arrangement on a high stack height stem.

i see, thanks! no, it wasn't safe. 🙂

it wasn't safe

well that's one opinion of many 😉

safe and consensual are my watchwords

truvative XR, or another single bolt stem?

lower stack headset?

I cant see the pic but I had a SS with some RC31's where the steerer was too short. It was about level with the top bolt. I cut a bit of steerer (12mm)from an old fork to bodge it & used an long Aomeba headlock bolt thingy.
Stem was an X4 & headset was Cane Creek jobby.
Rode without a problem for months, didn't slip a bit.

To be fair though it was mainly midweek winter rides on Cannock Chase.
There are no CwmCarn / Fort Bill rock gardens in the midlands.

If it is as said, with the steerer well below the top bolt, I doubt even I'd try it. Depends how long the stem is also.