What happened to my hex nut stem?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...0hLbs#t=11 6s
Damn those new-fangled gizmos.

On Jan 19, 11:02*pm, thirty-six wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=_dA2zy0hLbs#....
Damn those new-fangled gizmos.

Hi there thirty-six.

That's one way to open a bottle. Check out this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sziZ6PejrfM&NR=1 At the 3:00 mark it
looks to me as if the bicyclist used the rear brake to open his
bottle. Do you see the same thing I think I did?

Thanks and cheers from Peter

On Jan 20, 5:20*pm, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Jan 19, 11:02*pm, thirty-six wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=_dA2zy0hLbs#...
Damn those new-fangled gizmos.

Hi there thirty-six.

That's one way to open a bottle. Check out this videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sziZ6PejrfM&NR=1At the 3:00 mark it
looks to me as if the bicyclist used the rear brake to open his
bottle. Do you see the same thing I think I did?

E Mercx was such a fickler for detail, I am surprised at this. I
thought maybe he was using the pedal, maybe he was using the wheel
guide, but it really looks like he's prying the top using the seat
stay as the fulcrum and using the brake arm as the claw. It's not
that it's overloading the arm, it is reversing the normal stress.
What the hell, he could buy a new caliper every race day and not worry
about it.

I couldn't manage it on my frame, the bottle caps are too protected by
the bottle neck (at least on beer bottles.

I know people have had cap lifters brazed onto the top tube but hasn't
there been a discreet fitment for handlebars been made?