My stem is too long. I’ve known that for a while and I’ve been afraid to open this crab-shaped contraption to put a shorter one on because I just picture it exploding everywhere like one of those cans of paper snakes. Can I do it or should I have a pro do it the next time it’s serviced?
by MattBFD
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Probably yes. Where do the cables come out of the stem?
What year? Is that an any road? Hard to say without more photos and information
Yes, you can. There’s four bolts in the normal configuration that hold the master cylinder/face plate on the stem and clamping the bars. If you get a stem with the same EXACT bolt spacing, you can the pull the old stem off and attach the master cylinder to the new one.
Oh your poor, unfortunate fellow. Good luck with this journey
Best way to ensure it works correctly is buy the exact stem in a shorter length. Or you could get shorter reach handlebars. Alot of stock bars can be quite long reach so a new set could drop it down by 30 ish mm
I’d probably stick with a Giant stem however it should work. The front contraption that you speak of is a master cylinder for the Giant Conduct brakes.
I have the same exact bike. The Giant brake system is a bit of a one off. I have 2 stems for it in different lengths. Never tried to mount a different brand stem.
abomination? sir that’s a work of art! lol
I have this same brake system on my 2018 Giant TCR and I believe that Giant says to only use it with the Giant Connect stem.
Must be around 2018 when Giant smoked whatever drugs they were on to conceive the conduct system.
Mine came with one. I swapped my tcx slr2 with integrated aero drop bar so I had to go with compressionless mechanical disc brakes or hydraulic.
I guess you’re fine with this for now, but if it craps out I’d say it’s not worth fixing and replace with something more traditional
That’s a giant connect. I meant it as an adj.
Do yourself a favor and just ditch the giant hydro mechanical brakes. A nice set of TRP Spyers or even TRP HY/RD calipers if you want to stick with Hydro mechanical without the stem reservoir. That’ll clear up your cockpit and free you from stem limitations.
I worked at a Giant shop and we even suggested this upgrade on new bikes when Giant started this shit.