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stem from am original stumpy?
Nitto mtb stem c.1985
MTB stem and workshop slingshot. (deadly) Sorry this is bike rumour … let me be the first… a campagnolo seatpost. (quiet applause the crowd loves a familiar funny)
Bull Moose double clamp quill stem.
Nitto MTB could be it.
I had one of these on my 1985 Miyata
Is it for joining two sets of handlbars together for extra big people, like the cranfield man?
Sachs nipple clamp
That could legitimately be a campy seat and post… just add leather. But it also looks like a bullmoose stem I had on a Schwinn MTB which is a few years older than me
campy leaf rake. model name lombardia, i think.
That is a Campy limited edition corkscrew!
…actually that is a Campy TT stem.
I can’t wait for the day when they post an actual Campy seatpost.
Sakae stem.
Well it’s a Monday Mystery Pic so it has to be some sort of 90′s cantilever brake……
Not anywhere near as smooth, perhaps this link’s an older version:
http://www.bikerecyclery.com/vintage-sr-slingshot-stem-early-80s-mtb-bullmoose.html
About a pound and a half no longer required on your front end…
Boat anchor.
It`s a early 80`s slingshot stem…
sakae mtb stem….. we used to buy loads of them and built them in almost all our early Mtb’s ( very early eighties in Germany … if I remember) http://www.mtb-museum.de/bikes/older-bikes.htm
best Thor
Sakae stem, hell I have one for sale along with the rest of the early 80s bike it came with…
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=227044
It’s Specialized’s version of the Sakae MT-100 stem (which also required the MT-100 bars, 22.2mm clamp diameter) found on early Specialized MTBs. Nicer than the Sakae version; same concept, though.
Anti-wheelie stem…
Answer: S R Slingshot stem
Campy seatpost is campy seatpost.
I seem to recall Suntour doing a stem like that in the mid to late 80′s