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This is a flip-able stem and there are a couple of ways to know that, one is, that the Bontrager logo is printed right-side up and up-side down which means it's designed to run either way.
Right now it's angled up, but if you want it to bar lower yet, you could angle it down. It is a front opening stem. So you just open the front of the stem. Now you once again remove the top cap, pacers and you can flip the stem over. So now you can put the bar back on, conventionally the course would dictate that you put it this way rather than that way.
Now these bolts are some critical bolts, stem bolts, because you want to have this amount of space about the same top and bottom, and you can see I got a fairly open space here. It's pretty tight down here. So I want to loosen this bolt up a little bit and tighten that one to balance that gap.
Now these are pretty good size bolts and you can put a pretty good amount of torque on these. So to tighten with a torque wrench, you find that X bit that fits. The torque spec six-eight newton meters is pretty common with this size of bolt on the stem. So let's just say it's 6 and you put this on there, and you can see I am already two six, and here to eight already. So this one is not yet to eight there now. Now I will turn a little bit and it's to eight.
You want the bolts to be tight enough so that the handle bar is not going to twist when you put the brakes on, it's not going to flip and endanger you, but on the other hand, you don't want it tight enough that you are going to endanger yourself by possibly having the bolt break or the bolt strip out either while you are assembling it or worse while you riding it.
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