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Surly Travelers Check is cheaper than the stem;

Also available in gold...

I'm running the Bond scene through my head now. Scaramonger producing a titanium stem from a pen a lighter, and other bits. Does not have the same impact ;)

Scaramonger? Scaramanga's forumite alterego?

Scaramanga, get it right

ha, reader's wife's, squooch! :)

Aww, what a guy, such a fantastic wit...

Dunno about you lot but i'm sick of fixed gear bikes. they're shit. let's all just fuck off and leave dmc tester to run the ship. who's with me?

I want to repost this, really can't take my eyes off it;

then set it as your wallpaper and be gone

sams new feather looks awesome! very nice, look forward to seeing it in the flesh on monday

I want to repost this, really can't take my eyes off it;

i have those bars, wanted to sell them on the bay, but this changed my mind, what stem is this?

ha, reader's wife's, squooch! :)

It's not a reader's wife, you ape...!! that one's gangreen and has hipster-thin champ grips. Mine's big, pink and and something or other that makes it sound like a massive cock

sams new feather looks awesome! very nice, look forward to seeing it in the flesh on monday

Yeah, saw it in the flesh the other day, its awesome, especially the webbed head tube lugs!

It's not a reader's wife, you ape...!! that one's gangreen and has hipster-thin champ grips. Mine's big, pink and and something or other that makes it sound like a massive cock
my mistake

Am I being thick?

Why would you need a S&S coupler right next to a removable face plate?

I was going to jump to a similar conclusion, but then I thought how nice it would be to not have to spend ten minutes getting the bar angle back to "just so", not to mention the need to carry a torque wrench if you have carbon bars. Also, the stem tends to stick out sideways when you've packed the bike for travel, unless you undo the steerer clamp and turn it through 90deg, so shortening it by a couple of inches might save another set of adjustments - if you loosen the steerer clamp, you then have to set the preload on your headset again when you arrive at your destination.

Overall, I can kind of see how an S&S coupled stem might actually be a valid solution to a particular set of problems to somebody who, for instance, wanted to take a race bike with them while taking multiple short flights on business. With some low cost airlines charging >$100 per segment on domestic flights to carry a standard bicycle, the stem's price soon becomes irrelevant.

If getting the bar angle at the right position is the main problem, surely marking the bar by putting a sellotape on the stem/bar and mark it instead would be easier?

by the time you arrived, just match the line on the stem/bar to get the position perfect.

Wouldn't that be quite a cheapish solution? Listen to mdcc- that 900 quid are the best investment you can make. When you can not reassemble your stem the proper way you kinda earned to pay that money for a stem... That is porn just for the bank account of Zinn!

Yummy, and I do love the typography;

Oh how i have grown to love this forum.

Yeh, I'd do her! :-)

Didn't manage to quote the photo. Epic fail.

hampsten is nice. do not like drops on anythign other than a race/track/cyclox bike, though, and so i'd go with something more touring or towny.

nuknow quit fucking around.

nuknow quit fucking around.[/QUOTE]

It's not fucking around when you post a pic of that Rensho with Campag stuff.Beautiful & pure.Probably like alot of forum members :o)