A Time when Men were Men...

[Hugh Manatee]

...and stems were really long. For those youngsters who think that a 60mm stem makes the steering a little twitchy and your position too stretched for safety, check these bad boys out!

I was just up in the loft looking for rear lights when i found some old stems. The green one was original equipment on my 1990 Saracen Kili Flier Comp. The only reason I took it off was to fit a 150mm Flexstem.


Ooooh, my back!

 

[Drago]

I remember those Girvin Flexstems. Hideous things, but they sell for a fortune now.

 

[raleighnut]

And sheep were scared.

 

[ufkacbln]

Naval joke:

When I joined up we had men of steel and ships of wood, now its the other way round!

 

[mrbikerboy73]

I remember those Girvin Flexstems. Hideous things, but they sell for a fortune now.

I had a mountain bike with one of those on it. I left the bike at a friends house and never collected it. Probably not a bad thing really.
How about this beauty I've got?

 

[Hugh Manatee]

An original Velocity from a Joe Murray designed Kona. The twin bolt design was considered innovative back then.

 

[Levo-Lon]

The 1990 raleigh ATB i had was a bike built around a stem..id hate to have to ride that now

 

[Drago]

Geoff Apps was laughing his socks off at this scaffold-pole-for-a-stem antics. Alas, his laughing didn't take him as far as the bank.

 

[Motozulu]

Old boys thread

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I remember the days of having a 140mm on a '89 PineMountain (powder-coated a very similar orange too)

 

[OskarTennisChampion]

I remember those Girvin Flexstems. Hideous things, but they sell for a fortune now.

How do you think I feel ?.
I had a whole Pro-Flex bike

I loved it really

 

[galaxy]

The good old days