[CR]Mystery (french?) stem for identification ...

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From: "Eric Elman" <tr4play@cox.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, "donald gillies" <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
References: <20080924195451.E39CF19D8F@ug6.ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: [CR]Mystery (french?) stem for identification ...
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:59:47 -0400
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cc: oroboyz@aol.com

That's a Milremo branded stem. Milremo was the house brand for Ron Kitching. Chuck Schmidt sells nice reprints of his catalogs.

Eric Elman
Somers, CT USA


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From: donald gillies
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Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 3:54 PM
Subject: [CR]Mystery (french?) stem for identification ...



> can anyone identify the maker of this stem ???
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
> For future reference (after the auction is gone), it looks like a
> cinelli 1-A stem with 3 wide flutes ending in semicircles - down the
> sides and top, and says something like 'Gilbema' or 'Cilbiema' on the
> head/front.
>
> I'm guessing it's french only because of the accent on the 'e' in the
> spelling on the stem. Quite likely, the brand may have died because
> their logo was too hard to decipher !! Can you imagine walking into a
> bikeshop and saying, "Sir, sell me another <mumble>, please!" :-) :-)
>
> If this is from a newly discovered ancient parts-maker, should we try
> to host these photos on the CR Website ?
>
> - Don Gillies
> San Diego, CA, USA