Is there a Flexstem for modern bikes?

[Globalti]

My sister has just dumped her heavy old front-suspension BSO and bought a nice light hybrid but she has a chronic bad wrist and is finding the road shock through the bars painful. She loves the speed of the hybrid and wants to carry on commuting on it; I thought about a Girvin Flexstem but realise that they were made for quill stems. Can anybody suggest any other flexible sprung stem for a modern Ahead type steerer?

 

[black'n'yellow]

Two words - 'tyre pressure'

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Softride stem

 

[SpokeyDokey]

My sister has just dumped her heavy old front-suspension BSO and bought a nice light hybrid but she has a chronic bad wrist and is finding the road shock through the bars painful. She loves the speed of the hybrid and wants to carry on commuting on it; I thought about a Girvin Flexstem but realise that they were made for quill stems. Can anybody suggest any other flexible sprung stem for a modern Ahead type steerer?

Try the current Rose catalogue.

 

[ColinJ]

Two words - 'tyre pressure'

Three words - 'lower tyre pressure'!

 

[lulubel]

Three words - 'lower tyre pressure'!

A few more words - you can also run the front (the one that matters in this case) quite a bit softer than the rear because the rear takes more weight.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Sorry Ben, this completely slipped my mind, a lot of bromide riders use these and rate them highly...vibration is a big issue on little wheels....suspension hubs...


http://www.pantourhub.com/

 

[ColinJ]

A few more words - you can also run the front (the one that matters in this case) quite a bit softer than the rear because the rear takes more weight.

I usually run my front tyres about 10 PSI lower than the rear. I use relatively low pressures - for my 23c tyres it is usually 85-90 PSI front and 95-100 PSI rear

Sorry Ben, this completely slipped my mind, a lot of bromide riders use these and rate them highly...vibration is a big issue on little wheels....suspension hubs...

http://www.pantourhub.com/

Bromide or Brompton?
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[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

farking autocorrect and bad eyes....