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April 17th 17, 01:29 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Selecting An Appropriate Bolt
On Friday, April 14, 2017 at 2:40:22 PM UTC-7, Art Shapiro wrote:
On 4/14/2017 10:24 AM,
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I am horrified that anyone would need a Grade 8 bolt for a stem. I would get a stem that uses
two stainless bolts to clamp to the steerer and four to clamp to the bar. I would assume that he is
discussing an MTB because I can't imagine conditions bad enough on a road to pop a grade 8 bolt under any forces there.
You assume wrong. My Habanero is most assuredly a road bike. And it's
a one-bolt quill stem; I find those cost-reduced threadless stems to be
an ugly atrocity.
I hope to keep the Habanero for a long time; almost everything on it has
been upgraded over the years to full Campy record. The Deda stem, which
I originally sent them to use when constructing the machine, continues
to be a non-Campy exception.
The unexpected failure mode, which could have been catastrophic, was the
reason I posted.
Jay, that's one hell of a hardware store! I've rarely seen that many
specialty drawers.
Art
And I have always found quill stems to be an atrocity.
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