Those of you that frequent Bikejournal.com know about my shop bike, it's my avatar there.



as much as I love having this bike for cruising around the plant where I work, I don't like the handlebars. So I traded the handlebars (the old fashiioned kind) from a different bike with the help of two kind engineers.

First I learned that you can't get the handlebars off by loosening the nut that attachs them to the stem.

Then I learned that you can't get the stem out of the headtube by loosening the rather large nut there.

Then I learned that when you have a threaded stem, you don't need to unscrew the thing all the way, because the little piece at the bottom falls out..

Fortunately for me, I had one engineer there who is savvy with tools and then when I finally had the handlebars and stem out, another engineer that knows about bikes..

Gee, all this two days after my chain and derailleur class!!