i’m tuning up my road bike for upcoming spring training and i’ve been riding on a fork steerer that was cut a bit to short. right now i’ve only got a centimeter spacer between my the top of my head tube and the bottom of my stem, which is a stock 110mm cannondale stem that came on my R4000SI. i flipped the stem so that it is “rising” and my guesstimates put at about 2 centimters too low and 2 centimeters too short. i feel a little extended on the hoods and want to bring it up and in a little.
so, my question is this: will switching to a steeper angled 90mm stem (i’ve seen some of the 73 degree ritchey WCS stems floating around on fleabay) do the trick, or am i sacrificing handling by shortening the stem and having it rise upwards so much? perhaps it’s time to just buck up and get a proper length steer tube on a new fork…