Patent ID: 6892604

Claim:
Steering assembly comprising a headset, a handlebar stem and a headset spacer unit, wherein said headset spacer unit comprises a plurality of annular spacers, each of the spacers having a configuration at top and bottom sides thereof which is shaped to enable a bottom side of each of the plurality of spacer to make an interlocking engagement with a top side of another of said plurality of annular spacers in a manner preventing relative radial movement therebetween, said configuration comprising a stepped configuration with radially facing surfaces that physically block said radial movement; wherein a highest component of the headset and a bottom surface of said handle bar stem have a complementary configuration for engaging with the configuration of a respective side of the spacers; and wherein the stepped configuration at top and bottom sides of the spacers is formed by a counterbore on one of said sides and & protrusion on the other of said sides.