Originally Posted by
Kedosto
That’s one of the wildest collections of stems I’ve ever seen.
I can’t help but think there’s a significant bike fit problem here. I’ve never seen an outlier part installed on a bike that wasn’t some kind of work around for an improper fit. I don’t know the details, but this one seems odd.
Some people just need a different fit from the norm, and outlier stems and spacers are the way to deal with it. And in many cases there is really no downside other than fashion.
Of course, 80mm at 40 deg is getting the bars really close to the steering axis. That may or may not be a problem not knowing what the bar setup is. But sometime you gotta do what you gotta do.