I was thinking of doing a kickstarter for a new product that I think has a real market in the bicycle industry. I want to develop negative-space antimatter handlebar and seatpost shims. Using my -0.6mm thick "bubbashim" you could shim down a 26.0mm handlebar to fit into a 25.4mm stem clamp.
What do you think? On Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:09:35 AM UTC-8, iamkeith wrote: > > Not rude at all. Probably hard for most to understand my reasoning, > though. The bike is a really rare, Ritchey softtail. It has an almost as > hard-to-find 1" steerer suspension fork, that requires a threadless > headset. And I have the period-correct Ritchey-labeled, threadless, > nitto-built stem, that would have put the bars exactly where I wanted > them. I know I can get plenty of newer stems that would work, but I really > wanted it to "look" right, being such a special bike. Hope that makes > sense. Thanks for the offer of the stem, in any case. Much appreciated! > I'll probably just have to use flat bars in the end. > > On Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:39:15 AM UTC-7, Ryan wrote: >> >> Not to be rude, but why do you need to keep your 25.4 stem besides cost? >> Could you get away with the Nitto Technomic, which is still a nice enough >> stem? I definitely think that taking material off the Albastaches is a bad >> idea. Or maybe someone has a 26.0mm stem that would work for you. I might >> have a 3TTT in 26.0mm in the parts bin that I was going to put on my >> Peugeot PX-10 w moustache bars, but it was way too low so I went with a >> Nitto Technomic deluxe. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
