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[Paul_Smith SRCC]

Thanks for the heads up @Paul_Smith SRCC , I'll take your comments under great consideration as you're the man on this forum who knows. I've had no creaks so far in the 10 years since it/they were fitted. But I haven't had any reason over the years to remove the stem that often and I'm usually very carefully doing up bolts, certainly not the ham fisted type.

It would be a shame to change the stem as its a beautiful bit of metal.

Yes I concur, "it would be a shame to change the stem as its a beautiful bit of metal"; as you can probably guess from my post I have no plans to change mine, but yes I will continue to be diligent to not overtighten and keep my ears tuned to any worrying creaks.

 

[ianrauk]

Yes I concur, "it would be a shame to change the stem as its a beautiful bit of metal"; as you can probably guess from my post I have no plans to change mine, but yes I will continue to be diligent to not overtighten and keep my ears tuned to any worrying creaks.

Should have also added. I use Ti bolts in the stem, of which as you know, they're easy to knacker the bolt if tightened too much. That helps stop me tightening them too much.

 

[Sallar55]

Van Nic Zion needs a clean 🫢

 

[craigwend]

How much

 

[craigwend]

Framing the wild garlic woods...

 

[Johnno260]

 

[Exlaser2]

I didn’t know the Ventus ever had internal cabling ?

 

[ianrauk]

I didn’t know the Ventus ever had internal cabling ?

The newer frames do. Along with thru-axles.

 

[Jenkins]

I didn’t know the Ventus ever had internal cabling ?

The newer frames do. Along with thru-axles.

And disc brakes.

 

[Johnno260]

I didn’t know the Ventus ever had internal cabling ?

Mine doesn’t if you zoom in you can see the cables, the hydro lines are internally routed.

 

[ianrauk]

Hi @Paul_Smith SRCC
Now have one of these.

 

[ianrauk]

@Paul_Smith SRCC
So I checked the stem/steerer bolts on my Van Nic and my PX.
As I mentioned before, I'm not hamfisted. Both bike's bolts were slightly underdone.
Nice little bit of kit.

 

[Paul_Smith SRCC]

@Paul_Smith SRCC
So I checked the stem/steerer bolts on my Van Nic and my PX.
As I mentioned before, I'm not hamfisted. Both bike's bolts were slightly underdone.
Nice little bit of kit.

They are indeed a useful bit of kit, I dare say there are a few brands that do them, if anyone is wondering where they come from then Bontrager Preset 5 Nm Torque Wrench are one of the brands; any Trek stockist can order them should they not have one in stock.

 

[ianrauk]

They are indeed a useful bit of kit, I dare say there are a few brands that do them, Bontrager Preset 5 Nm Torque Wrench being one, any Trek stockist can order them should they not have one in stock.

Thanks for the original tip.

 

[AlanW]

Some may recall the catastrophic failure of my Kinesis Ti frame back in February of this year and more importantly the poor response from not only the LBS that l purchased the frame from, but also Kinesis (Upgrade Bikes).

So the hunt began to find a replacement frame vowing never to look at a Kinesis frame again.

The main criteria was that the frame must come with a life time warranty, so straight away that narrows the choice right down to just a couple of options, Reilly being one of them.

I had several discussions with Reilly Works and went to a couple of shows and decided that the Spectre was the one for me. Just the frame was circa £2.5k but as it was a disc frame and the one that failed was a rim brake frame, this meant a new groupset plus wheels etc. So all in all it was never going to be a cheap replacement, which l knew that right from the start.

Fast forward six months and l still hadn't taken the plunge with ordering the Reilly and maybe l had mellowed, maybe it was driven by cost, but l decided to email Upgrade Bikes to see if we could come to some sort of amicable agreement in terms of the cost of a replacement frame.

Needless to say and despite everything l said about Kinesis back in February, look what arrived today