Closer to matchy-matchy
I replaced the stem on the kit bike with a custom-painted 3t Mutant, and then took the machine out on a bunch of shopping trips, ending up with a damp squelch down to the Big Big Store for lunch supplies for the bears. The mutant is ~110mm while the old stem was ~100mm (it’s actually about 5mm longer) and it sits a little bit lower, so I will probably need to nudge the saddle forward 5-10mm to effectively rotate the bars up and restore my previous riding position until I can get that little bit of additional flexibility.
Note that I pulled the Garmin mount from the stemcap. Part of it is an artifact of the stem having a shorter clamp (I’d need to put a spacer under the stem to lift it to the point where a cap wouldn’t foul against the top of the expansion plug) but it’s mainly because the USB connector on my Garmin 200 failed and I can’t use it until I am able to solder in a new connector (a Lightning connector instead of USB, because it’s a sturdier reversable connector than the horribly fragile mini-USB plug) and modify the case to fit everything inside a waterproofish enclosure. Until then, the stemcap is a silver one resting on a 10mm black spacer to remind me that my version of matchy-matchy isn’t quite the same as everybody else’s.