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System ex make seatposts in every size

I’ve had this Serotta for the last five years and put many miles on it in that time. A pretty hefty crash resulted in the frame needing some serious work, which in turn meant new paint. It was originally a pearlescent white but I fancied a change. The photo doesn’t really show but there are two tones of purple fading across each tube. I need to chop the steerer and I want to replace the stem for a slightly slimmer one (it seems quite hard to find an ahead stem that looks good on slim steel tubes) and I also am on the hunt for some 25-35mm carbon wheels - if anyone has any for sale let me know. I can’t recommend Laka enough, they were great throughout the whole process and very accommodating. I’ve been off the bike for three months recovering but took it out for a three and a half hour blast today, the lanes were filthy and soaking wet, and now so am I, but infinitely better for it.

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System ex make seatposts

No they don't. They do buy seatposts in every size from Kalloy, so there's that 🙂

Same same

Re stems: worth looking into steel stems. Old GT stems are quite easy to find at co-ops, and have a nice integrated steerer clamp like the Thomson X4. Nitto and Sim Works also make a few nice ones. 'Course then you gotta get the steel or Ti spacers with the appropriately sized outer diameter, but.

Course then you gotta get the steel or Ti spacers

If you (or anyone) need them look on eBay for a seller called Ultraturn, he made me up a few for real cheap.

Or if you are using a 1inch steerer with a 1 1/8 steel stem, I find using standard 1 inch alu spacers gives the same OD.

@andyBmore and @MCamb it’s a 1” carbon steerer. Thanks for the tips. Currently it’s a Thomson X4, the X2 looks like a slightly slimmer example. Planet X sell old 3T and Deda ones very cheap that I’ve used before but they have about as much rigidity as a soggy envelope

oh rad. There's some cool old 1" steel stuff that pops up on eBay from time to time. I have an "Aggressor" stem from back in the day that has a lil US flag pantograph on it, for example. @MCamb is correct re: OD of different spacers and shimmed stems ime.

may be tough to get the same rigidity as a Thomson X4 with old steel stems though I will admit.

How about this?
https://alexscycle.com/products/onebyesu-77-angle-1inch-ahead-stem
You can get them on eBay as well but shipping is still from Japan.

Yeah hah those old steel gt stems are quite flexyyy. Mine never bothered me in use though.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F132995871694

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F323433973898

Quite like these nitto stems.

y'all got me going down a road into the weird world of 1" stems
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Specialized-Titanium-130mm-5-Degree-1-Steerer-Bicycle-Stem/223617253463?hash=item3410a08057%3Ag%3AyZ4AAOSwv8ZdTNg0&LH_ItemCondition=3000

These are 1 1/8th, no?

I’m pointing the moneygun at a £50 frame, it’s not getting a kalloy seatpost.

Nice one... city jets are so baller

Zaaap!

I paid the £5 tax for the gum wall. That’s moneygun on my wages.

I quite like this - I'm assuming it's a 1 1/8th shimmed, it belongs to someone on here but I can't remember who. I have 26mm clamp bars so that also impacts on choice of stem.

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Still feels a bit out of place despite the modern groupset. Nothing beats steel as far as skinny stems and they just look right.

Sometimes I wonder why I sold this bike...

And if you feel you're restricted in handlebar section you can always replace the handlebar clamp with an OS one like I did.

@mankkis- what is the stem on the specialized? It looks great!

Niou baïke

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Excellent.