Originally Posted by
Michael Angelo
1. WHy is it called a stem, when there are clearly no flowers on the end?
The handlebar is the "flower" sprouting from the "stem".
2. Barcons used to be when someone or somebody took advantage of you at a bar...why "barcons" on a bike....do they fool us??
Bar-Con is the name SunTour gave to its version of handle
bar end
control levers. The name caught on and now everybody uses it to describe them no matter what the brand. Kind of like how people call tissue "Kleenex". <g>
