Re: [CR] In search of ~55mm GB stem - buy or trade

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Cinelli)

From: "Bill Roberts" <bill.roberts@earthlink.net>
To: CR <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:24:19 -0800
Subject: Re: [CR] In search of ~55mm GB stem - buy or trade


Regarding the lengths of GB stems from the 60's and 70's:

I can confirm that they did indeed make them as short as 55mm (1960's, spearpoint).

That equals 2.17", and the stem is not 51mm (2"), so it appears at least in the mid-60's they were making them in metric denoted lengths.

A couple of other samples measure 70mm (2.75" - early 70's), and 90mm (3.54" - 1967), so perhaps they were using both metric and inches to denote lengths in that time period.

Bill Roberts
Jacksonville, OR