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So I have an old road bike. It's not quite my size though. As a consequence I need to put the saddle very high compared to the bar (about 14 cm difference). It's pretty manageable, but still not particularly comfortable, especially when using the lower bar.
To solve this, I wanted to put the stem higher, but it's one of those old one-piece things (pic related), so it's not possible. So I want to replace it with a new one, but as I said, it's one of those one-piece things and I really have no idea how to get the bar out. It almost looks like I seriously have to strip the whole bar free (even those knobs) and somehow manoeuvre the bar out. Is there really no other way to do this?