[Bikael Molton]

Does anyone know when in '05 these things are going to be available?

Oh yeah - will the stem come in 2 lengths or just a short (45-50mm)?

thx

-r

 

[Acadian]

search is your friend...
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103470&highlight=direct+mount

 

[heikkihall]

If you are looking for the boxxer direct mount stem it looks like it is going to be soon, probably around the first of the year.
If you are refering to pictures from the display at interbike of the pedals and 1.5 stems then there are no dates set as of now but they are in the works.

 

[dw]

Just as Heikki said.

Right now we have a new set of factories that we are working with to build pedals and stems. Its quite a different approach than the normal way of working with an established "bike industry" vendors, but the ideas that we have and the tolerance requirements that we have imposed seem to be an obstacle to working with "bike industry" companies, so we have pushed forward to vendors outside the bicycle industry. We should know a lot more by the end of December.

Dave

 

[Bikael Molton]

Thanks - I meant the standard stem, not the Boxxer stem.

-r

If you are looking for the boxxer direct mount stem it looks like it is going to be soon, probably around the first of the year.
If you are refering to pictures from the display at interbike of the pedals and 1.5 stems then there are no dates set as of now but they are in the works.

 

[Kornphlake]

Just as Heikki said.

Right now we have a new set of factories that we are working with to build pedals and stems. Its quite a different approach than the normal way of working with an established "bike industry" vendors, but the ideas that we have and the tolerance requirements that we have imposed seem to be an obstacle to working with "bike industry" companies, so we have pushed forward to vendors outside the bicycle industry. We should know a lot more by the end of December.

Dave

So who are the established bike industry vendors? We work with an injection molder who also molds parts for speedplay, yet they are in no way an industry vendor, they do more for us than any other customer and all we make is pipe inspection equipment. I figured that the only industry vendors were places in tiawan or china like Giant and I don't imagine it would be cost effective to have parts made there in quantities less than a few million. Any of the botique brands have their stuff machined at some local shop I'd have thought, this is how they get the quality out of their parts, a good design is useless if the shop can't make it the way it's designed, you already know that though. Is there really a directory of machine shops that specialize in bicycle parts or some handfull of shops that specifically look for customers in the industry?

 

[buildyourown]

I've had stems done at Anodizing Inc. in Portland.
I would consider them one of the common bike industry vendors. Their quality is good, but you could get better from an aerospace job shop.