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Do you use a shim on your stem (1" tubes)
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I'd like to tap the wisdom of slowtwitch for a little advice.

I've got a 1" carbon steer tube on my forks and I'm having a hell of a time finding ANY stems that are MADE for 1" steer tubes AND have an oversized clamp (my current bars are 31.8's).

It appears as though my only choice is to go with a 1 1/8" clamp and use a shim, but I'm weary of shimming on a carbon steer tube.

Would you shim it, or get some standard bars and a 1" stem made for them?

What say the sages of Slowtwitch?

Thanks,

Karma
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Re: Do you use a shim on your stem (1" tubes) [karma] [ In reply to ]
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A shim is fine.

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Re: Do you use a shim on your stem (1" tubes) [karma] [ In reply to ]
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I use a shim and have had no problems.


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Re: Do you use a shim on your stem (1" tubes) [karma] [ In reply to ]
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Shims are a ghetto workaround for a manufacturing problem. Yes, they work. Ideally you should try to avoid them, but sometimes you just have no other options (or simply don't want to spend the money to replace an otherwise perfectly good part).

I use a shim on my stem and my wrench hates it. I can't say I'm terribly fond of it myself, but it hasn't bothered me enough to replace the stem yet...


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Re: Do you use a shim on your stem (1" tubes) [karma] [ In reply to ]
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I have a shim on one of my bikes with no apparent problems thus far. I see the one size available and shim-to-fit approach as part of the ongoing cost-cutting that is occuring in component manufacturing- not that its a bad thing.

I would just use the shim.
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