Ruebi
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HI All, Looking at a H10 wild. Very very hard to seem them in person here, so a couple of questions, id like to raise the height of the stem a bit, out of the factory is there any room to put spacers under the stem that maybe were sitting on top?
Is there much length on the riser and how difficult was it to change the stem? Thinking a smaller stack stem can sit higher with some high rise bars and maybe a 35MM length .
Any details or pictures would be helpful to see if i can do what i need. HOw do the cables route through the headset area if i do change stems?
last question is on brakes, in my country they tend to restrict customizations if there is stock of the default bike in stock, wanted to upgrade the brakes to XT from the 6120 standard . and the stem from 40MM to 35MM. Ive been told that to change the brakes is significant due to the motor needing to drop? correct or not, .. we are talking 2x or 3x the cost if dropping motor needed and with no ability to customise the bike from the factory its a big added cost to account for.
ok any help is greately appreciated
thanks
1) On my bike there is 30mm of space under the stem. Edit: It came with 30mm spacers.
2) Changing the height of the Orbea stem with the Orbea spacers is easy since they are split in two parts.
However if you want a „Non-Orbea“ stem you have to buy the universal SIC top cap from Orbea like on the picture below. But you lose the spin block function. Installing is easy but a bit fiddly because you need to disconnect/bleed the rear brake, remove the shift/dropper cables from the remotes and route everything through the universal adapter.
3) Just let the brake line of the 6120 in the frame and install the 8120 XT caliper/lever. The hoses might be the same but you should check that. If they are not you could use the Rock Shox Reverb Barb connector, connect the old and the new brake line and pull the old line with the connected new line through the frame.
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