Pop Brennan made his own stems and bars. My Brennan I brought to the Cirque had a set of the bars. The bars were made to each riders specs and I believe Jeff Groman has the forming blocks for the bars and has an idea of the associated 6-day riders and sprinters.
Also I really like the Titan stems. Steel stem, alloy binder bolt! The bolts look scary but they seem to be working 40 years later.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
>
> Mark,
>
> Don't forget the stems made by the Frogs. Rene Herse, Alex Singer, and I'm
sure a number of others.
>
> Brian Baylis
> La Mesa, CA
>
>
>
> -- "Mark Stevens" <mountgerald@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> Hi Chuck et al, Thanks for those images of your '55 Gillott. Stunning
paint.
> Your stem is the Gillott stamped Titan type and as I suspected has a plate
> brazed on behind the clamp to match the lug style. I have never seen one
of
> these before. I believe this Titan stem was the base for their matched
stems
> in the Fifties. I have one on my 1953 lugless Gillott tandem. Needless to
> say it has no lug detail. I have just bought another tandem stem on ebay
> (Thanks Hilary!) and plan to remove the steerer insert and weld a narrow
one
> on. I have 2 stems from the Forties which were fabricated from
components.
> I know this because I once asked Bill Gray (RIP) to make a stem for my
> Thanet Silverlight. He showed me the various components and told me they
> used to assemble custom stems from these parts at Claud Butlers where
Bill
> worked for many years.
> So a list of Makers' stems;
> Claud Butler
> Gillott
> Ephgrave
> Hetchins
> Holdsworth
> Thanet
> I have seen Dawes and Sun but these were only stamped types, not made "in
> house". Can anyone confirm others? Not counting "Panto'ed" types either.
> Mark Stevens, Dingwall, Scotland