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01-27-20, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Rides4Beer

Depends on the frame, some look ok with a taller headtube, some look weird.

IMO, a 10mm spacer and 10mm headset cap isn't too bad, that's what I have on my current road bike and it doesn't scream out like a big stack of spacers. I'm currently shopping for a new bike, it'll have a taller headtube (looking at endurance geo bikes), so I'll run it with no spacers and the smallest headset cap I can find, and end up around the same stack that I'm currently riding.

Big bikes are going to have big head tubes. There's no getting around it, and a 62cm frame would look stupid with a 180mm head tube.

Totally slammed bikes with a flat headset cap and no spacers look pretty silly(IMO).

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