06-03-2013, 09:17 PM
My 80s bike has a quill stem. It is too short. The bars raised up to a comfortable height exceeds the minimum line where you aren't supposed to raise it higher than, exceeds it by an inch.
I like the new aero/ergo/compact wing style bars by FSA. I want to install it on my bike. I saw something on Amazon and other sites called a quill stem adapter. The bottom of it looks just like my stock quill stem. The top of it looks like those buttons or whatever they are called, that sit atop the new style of threadless headsets.
So do I have this right: I need a quill stem adapter in the size to fit my current headset. I need a clamp with a faceplate (confusingly, also called a stem). And I need a bar of the same diameter that the clamp fits.
What are the right terms to describe all this? I found the bar I want on bikebling.com but the person emailing me does not seem to understand what a quill stem adapter is. Keeps repeating that my stem needs to match the diameter of the bar. Finey dandy, but the stem has to have something to stand on. That would be the quill stem adapter, right?
Or can you buy an entire threadless headset to go on an old bike?
All help appreciated.
I like the new aero/ergo/compact wing style bars by FSA. I want to install it on my bike. I saw something on Amazon and other sites called a quill stem adapter. The bottom of it looks just like my stock quill stem. The top of it looks like those buttons or whatever they are called, that sit atop the new style of threadless headsets.
So do I have this right: I need a quill stem adapter in the size to fit my current headset. I need a clamp with a faceplate (confusingly, also called a stem). And I need a bar of the same diameter that the clamp fits.
What are the right terms to describe all this? I found the bar I want on bikebling.com but the person emailing me does not seem to understand what a quill stem adapter is. Keeps repeating that my stem needs to match the diameter of the bar. Finey dandy, but the stem has to have something to stand on. That would be the quill stem adapter, right?
Or can you buy an entire threadless headset to go on an old bike?
All help appreciated.