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Bike Assembly Question

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Jns365

Discussion Starter · Nov 22, 2005

I found a bike someone threw away and I am trying to restore it but don't know much about bikes. I'm not sure how to put the handlbars together into the frame and front fork. I tried to google for assembly instructions but the parts used are more modern I think than what is in this bike.

Can someone tell me how this part works or the name of it so I can google it? It looks like this and seems to fit onto the bottom of the handlebars.

https://img454.imageshack.us/img454/6852/part2pz.jpg

Thanks if someone can help me.

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PCC

· #2 · Nov 22, 2005

The part in the drawing, if threaded, is the lower wedge for the stem. The bottom of the stem is cut at a matching diagonal, a long bolt is dropped down through a hole at the opposite end of the diagonal cut and threads onto the wedge. As you tighten the bolt the wedge works against the bottom of the stem and clamps the stem into the steerer tube of the front fork.

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Bikinfoolferlife

· #3 · Nov 22, 2005

Looks like a wedge from a threaded headset/stem combo which isn't current on mountain bikes or road bikes any more but was around for a very long time...maybe something on this page is what you're looking for http://www.sheldonbrown.com/handsup.html#threaded