Originally Posted by
Dr.Deltron
He means that the original Schwinn stem was a solid steel unit. (ie; cast steel)
The one you broke is hollow, made from bent sheetmetal.
Usually, a stem failure like you have pictured, results in a fatal event.
Glad that you survived this one!
Yeah, that wasn't the original one, I broke the original one trying to take it off to put new forks on (I couldn't remove the old forks either)