Old 09-27-14 | 05:37 PM
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HillRider
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Bikes: '96 Litespeed Catalyst, '05 Litespeed Firenze, '06 Litespeed Tuscany, '20 Surly Midnight Special, All are 3x10. It is hilly around here!

There were some 1-1/8" quill stems used on MTB's back in the early '90's and I had one on a '92 Trek 7000 rigid fork, hardtail MTB. As Cross Creek noted, they weren't exactly a thing of beauty. AFAIK, there were no elegant, graceful 1-1/8" quills, at least I never saw one.

Maybe it's just me but I can't understand going to all that trouble and expense for a trivial thing like the "appearance" of a quill stem.
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