Quill stems family albums
 

I was changing stems on my Look and KHS today and decided to take a group photo of my stem stash. Mostly just so I can remember what I have:

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let’s see you guys’ stem collections

Now I know where all the 80-90 mm stems I need are hiding, LOL!

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Wow - that's quite a collection!I have a few spare 1" headsets and a couple of my favorite seatposts...Do tell, how do you end up with so many stems?

One at a time just like any hoarder! Trawling Ebay and a few came from the C&V for-sale forum.

Album of 2, possibly my favorite, have plenty more, never rounded them up for a group shot, yet. ;)


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i have a wee drawer full that I delve into every now and then . Plus a bunch of bars with stems fitted hangng about !

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I do like the looks of this 3TTT Record, and I'm not even sure why.
Maybe it's just the extra details??
The decals, the extra text cast into it??
It's not as simple as a clean Cinelli or Nitto Pearl, but I can't help it. ... Plus.. I have a nice example stashed away too. :)


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Steve in Peoria

Yep, beautiful and cool as ef.

First top level part I ever bought was a 135mm? one of these that was deeply discounted for my first too small high end bike that I was out growing even more.

Next up was another deeply discounted part, narrow Campy 2 bolt that got me some more height.

Then a set of Mafac "2000" engraved brakes to replace the standard issue Dia-Compes, SunTour first gen Cyclones to go with the stock "Mighty" Sugino Mighty Competition crank and I was set.

Bike was a Mizutani Super Seraph bought from Mel Renfro when he had a bike shop here in PDX.

It was nice but heavy, I didn't really know any better and didn't care, especially after I got the better parts on it.

Until it parted ways with bottom half of the DS RDO and became a parts donor. :twitchy:

That's a nice stash. You need to keep them in plastic bags though- otherwise they get scratched up from jostling around in a box like that.

Boxed is how I store mine but plastic for around here, don’t want silverfish bugs.

Me looking at these stems like....

https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.1...LH&pid=Api&P=0

I'll play... There's another box of take offs somewhere, and for whatever reason I have a couple of crates of "cockpits" that haven't been broken down, as well as a bunch of Nitto Technomics floating around in the various project boxes.

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^ Is that a SR Royal stem with the machined groove on the right inside the bag?
Nice home-made(?) adjustable track stem!

Yeah thats a Royal. Embarrassingly, I cant remember exactly were it came from. It might have been from a semi local bike forum member who was moving to the west coast. He had a craigslist add up for some bike parts, and when I got there he just kept making the pile bigger.

The adjustable stem is titanium. I got that on Ebay. Supposable Mark Nobilette made it.

The Salsa is the other unique stem I have. Also found that on ebay. I bought a Nishiki Ariel to hold it. My shop is still basically a museum of pre covid dreams.....

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The “gooseneck” drawer
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Stuff that does not fit in the “gooseneck” drawer