Are Nitto Stems Anodized?
01-01-09, 06:15 PM
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Are Nitto Stems Anodized?
I'm thinking of updating the bars/stem on my 80s Motobecane. The steerer is the french 22mm. I was thinking of getting a Nitto stem but was wondering if they are anodized or just polished.
01-01-09, 07:10 PM
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Nitto stem: mine's anodized (and handsome)
Could be that it was a one-off product.
Happy new year.
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Nitto stems are clear anodized. Polishing them requires that you first remove the anodizing with oven cleaner. I just recently polished a technomic deluxe. The anodizing must be extra thick because it took a dozen applications of Easy Off to remove all of it.
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Every time I see a different bike of yours they seem to look better than the last. I just flipped through the photos, there is no way that paint is original...
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The Nitto stem on my '87 C-dale is anodized black (and beginning to show a patina of red-bronze) and is very good-looking, IMHO. The bike was done in black as a marketing effort, so the brakes, bar, hubs, seat post, and brake levers are all in black as well.
Could be that it was a one-off product.
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Could be that it was a one-off product.
Happy new year.
JF
If its anything like this then it is a Black Lightning based off the Criterium 3.0 frame. The more recent Black Lightning was for their 30th anniversary. Maybe this was for their 20th?
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The numbers say mine was made in 1987.
Cheers and happy new year.
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