{"id":3204,"date":"2011-02-02T19:17:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T00:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2011-02-02T19:17:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T00:17:29","slug":"four-bolt-stem-on-the-voodoo-dambala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/02\/four-bolt-stem-on-the-voodoo-dambala\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-Bolt Stem on the VooDoo Dambala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5877-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5877-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"80mm Specialized four-bolt stem to replace the frequently-loosening two-bolt that came on the VooDoo Dambala.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to the two-bolt clamp on the stem on the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/voodoo_dambala\">VooDoo Dambala<\/a> I&#8217;d occasionally have problems <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PA031108.jpg\">like this<\/a> where the bar rotated precipitously while going off a small drop. While at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mmba.org\/annual-meeting\">MMBA Annual Meeting<\/a> in Lansing I found the 80mm Specialized stem seen above for $10. I fitted it tonight, and hopefully it&#8217;ll keep the bar solidly in place.<\/p>\n<p>At 80mm it&#8217;s maybe 5mm shorter than the previous Bontrager stem, but I don&#8217;t think this will make much of a difference. At least now I&#8217;ll be able to ride without worrying about the bar suddenly changing position. And, if it proves to be too short, it was cheap enough to not be a big deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the two-bolt clamp on the stem on the VooDoo Dambala I&#8217;d occasionally have problems like this where the bar rotated precipitously while going off a small drop. While at this year&#8217;s MMBA Annual Meeting in Lansing I found the 80mm Specialized stem seen above for $10. I fitted it tonight, and hopefully it&#8217;ll\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}