Originally Posted by 11.4

Just so y'all understand the ramifications of this ... When I was 19 I t-boned a rider who fell right in front of me. I was riding an old badged steel Cinelli stem of this same design and can show you the shape of the apex in a six-inch long gouge it left on my sternum. The surgeon said that with a pair of rib spreaders I was all ready for a coronary bypass. These things are not particularly safe and for those who care, these are not NJS. (Now that really killed the interest in it, didn't it????)