Did you understand the flip the stem part? you turn it upside down so the the angle it up rather than down.

yes, both my bikes are silver (have silver on them) I'm a silversmith. I think that mine may be a later model than yours. It's silver with black and blue stickers/stripes.

me when I first got my trek 1000 in May 2005:



me with my Madone (really charcoal gray with silver details) in July 2007 about 5000 miles later: