what's up writers I got a quick video for you guys today I want to be cheering down my steer tube I actually kind of just thought this up on how to tap the star nut down without using an actual star nut tool or whatever it's called so pretty much what I'm going to do is take the stock one off remove all these facers doesn't matter but take them off anyways get a spare bolt and top cap thread this on a little bit and yeah I'm going to need a trim off about an inch this is about an inch here so pretty much you know maybe a 16 inch below with the top of the stem is I'm going to top the star nut down probably down to about here so to do that instead of using actual tool use a spare top cap and bolt thread it down a little bit and just go kind of little by little and use this as a guide to keep it straight down as you tap it here so Center it with this the top cap and just tap the bowl little by little until you get it to where you want it so here it goes and I'm just going to check it periodically just to make sure I don't tap it in too far okay got about another half an inch to go so little by little tapping it in okay as you can see the star nut stepped down right where it needs to be went perfectly straight in there with just using you know a spare uh top cap and bolt okay so at this point before I take the stem off and remove the fork I'm actually going to mark with the top of the stem is on the steer tube okay so here's the line with the top of the stem hit I'm doing that about an eighth of inch below that line as a guide I'm using a standard hose clamp and I'll be cutting this with a hacksaw you can also use a pipe cutter here we go alright here's the finish result check it out perfectly straight cut send it all the burrs off on the edges sar not perfectly straight down doesn't get any better than that from this point I'm just gonna put the spacers back on and the stem and handlebar signed everything back up and be good to go spaces on there stem in bars top cap on throw that bad boy in there and everything up okay here's the finished result as you can see it looks really clean took off about an inch off the seer tube and the steer tube is actually stock height now for the spike if I ever want to raise the bars I can always swap the stem up vertically and then if I want to lower it I can just take some spaces from the bottom but I'm on top and lower this down in the process but yeah this was just an idea I had and it went exactly as planned so if you're looking to cut the steerer tube on your bike on your own this is definitely one way to explore it and yeah thanks for watching and see you guys out on the trails