Originally Posted by Tourist in MSN

Good call on waiting to cut steerer tube. You can always make it shorter, but can't make them longer. When I did cut it on one of my bikes, I intentionally left it a bit long. And then cut it again, also leaving it a bit long. The third and final cut was a couple years after I built up the bike.

If you flip the stem so it is closer to horizontal, you can leave the steerer a bit longer and avoid it being unsightly, thus if years from now you wanted the bars up higher, you could raise it at that time by flipping the stem again.

Nice looking bike.