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Well, there‘s this reasonably priced 195$ stem you could buy...
Anyway, it sounds like a cool and unusual project so I wouldn‘t mind a pic-heavy cp thread ;)
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Sig_Arlecchino
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@snowy_again I will inform you and we'll go for a beer on top of one of our brilliant hills with a view round here. I will be riding up them seated, a bit like you in your mum's Renault 4 round the houses.
@Sig_Arlecchino I have the original integrated steel stem/bar, it's a funny affair with zero reach. Not as insanely heavy as I thought it would be, but am considering switching for some alloy bars and as small a stem as I can find. Thing is, they look wrong with a normal stem, and right with the no-reach integrated thingy. the alloy parts I've got are about 500g, original is nearer a kilo. Bars are a bit uneven/ warped, from being dropped I reckon, hoping to ask Winston to help me put them closer to the original shape, then paint same as the frame (as they are now, a bottle green I am not keen on. Why did everyone in the 90s paint tourers etc bottle green!? Not my cuppa tea).