A beautiful stem? Appreciate your stems here

There's a much nicer nitto one than those...^^^^^ looks as nice as that one tilover has - how beautfiful does a stem need to be? I think lugs and paint on stems is fucking naff.

Imagine a Hetchins with one of them Llewelyns on it...
be like an explosion in a 'kin florists

Or a massacre in a miserichord....

ooh youre alliterative powers are strong today young jedi
"you must spread etc etc"

a beautiful stem is like a beautiful woman..

lolz

First, carefully check the ferrule is gonna be sitting sweetly in that clamp. You don't want to ruin things early on with a sticky hole situation. Next, you gotta ease those bars in nice and steady. I hope you haven't been stupid enough to wrap the tape yet - this aint a front loader young Feller-me-lad. Lastly you want to sink that allen key where you just know it's going to do some good, having made sure your steerer's sitting snug and straight under that lightly oiled stem-collar. It's gonna be so stiff and so beautiful, not like that old-fashioned stem-love your mummy & daddy practiced ... back then it was pretty, but it was way too floppy when you got out of the saddle for the big finish.

man-kini stem^

^^lol !!!!!!

... I think lugs and paint on stems is fucking naff.

Agreed.

As for Thomsons, I like these ones in a beefy-weapon-kind-way, but other than that, the £20 Deda ones are much better aethetically.

altho when I searched for Deda, I found this one which is quite tastey and follows the Anne Summers theme:

My 2p if you want a really 'nice' stem you have 2 options;
1) Custom;
2) ebay and find an old random one - search for Scotts BMW. Theres a really nice 90s mtb stem on that.

EDIT: seriously tho, I'm looking at the bottom Deda one again... and if you stripped and polished that, you'd have something with a much smoother look and closer to a quill than any off the ott lugged ones.

Thanks guys. That Llewellyn looks the job, if they are still out there. Joint 2nd up is the nitto ahead if they do chrome with Rickys.

Fixie inc. unsed to have a simillar stem up until 2009 on the Black Jack and http://www.bmx-onlineshop.de/ sells similar stems as well. They are 150€ tough.

This ones quite elegant looking. Only 340 EUR.

Fuck all that tig welding or lugged bollocks.

This is what you want

Fuck all that tig welding or lugged bollocks.

This is what you want

bang! haha!

Thompson X2

But I would pick this as I just bought one...

Zzzzzzzzzz

I know they are good and light and stiff but they are functional looking and fugly.

Weirdly I love the seatposts but the stems just don't do it apart from X4 stubby MTB ones

http://cgi.ebay.com/vintage-Modolo-777-twin-stem-Nos-/230560113310?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35ae74229e

http://cgi.ebay.com/vintage-Modolo-777-twin-stem-Nos-/230560113310?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35ae74229e

ummm... so does this mean we're continuing with a sex toy theme?

Fixie inc. unsed to have a simillar stem up until 2009 on the Black Jack and http://www.bmx-onlineshop.de/ sells similar stems as well. They are 150€ tough.

You can buy the bits here:
http://ceeway.com/NEWPARTSPAGES/lugs.htm
and silver braze it yourself with just propane or MAPP gas.

630,00 €

#Readers wives

only option is something like the nitto ahead

I actually like these stems.
If you're talking about a classic frame, lugged or fillet brazed, nowt wrong with that in my book.

I actually like these stems.
If you're talking about a classic frame, lugged or fillet brazed, nowt wrong with that in my book.

+1
If you have a decorative frame. Chances are all the details are in the headtube area, so a busy stem might clash.

steelman do some nice ones