Original Message: ----------------- From: devon warner crabulux@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:46:36 -0800 (PST) To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: RE: [CR]Fwd: picture AVA death stem
"Wow, I rode a bike with this stem on it for 10 + years. And it was out over the mark for much of the time. Was I lucky? (I'm small.) It came from a mid-70s Peugot, then got put on a 1980 Nishiki Pro and ridden thousands of miles. Devon Warner San Francisco"
You think you were "lucky", you should consider the scores of cyclists who
raced professionally on the Peugeot-BP team with these "death stems"! That
book on Peugeot is loaded with racing photos showing just that. Of cours e, someone will tell me they were actually Cinelli-made stems designed to loo k like AVA stems. Me, I am quite content to tempt the fates riding my PX-1 0 with an AVA stem. It didn't kill Tommy Simpson, so I'll take the chance.
Peter Kohler Washington DC USA
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