On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 09:17:34 -0700 (PDT), Sir Ridesalot
wrote:

On Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 9:32:09 AM UTC-4, AMuzi wrote:
On 4/13/2019 5:58 AM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
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If you want to raise or lower a stem with a hole in it to which the front brake cable is anchored then you'd have to adjust the brakes too as lower the stem will move the pads away from the rim and raising the stem will move the pads closer to the rim.


Back when that was the standard setup on MTBs, we saw that
as a feature, not a problem.

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Andrew Muzi
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Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Until you go to raise that stem and it causes the brake pads to bind against the rim. I remember having that happen a lot on those MTBs that had the hole in the stem with the brake cable going through it.

Cheers

Does one raise and lower the handle bars frequently on a MTB? On a
road bike once I have the bike set up to be comfortable I probably
don't change anything, seat height, fore and fat seat position, handle
bar angle or height, etc., for years..
--
cheers,

John B.