Nitto Vintage Parts!
Do you know Nitto just started their official Instagram? They sometimes posted prototypes and dead stock parts, so I really enjoy checking it. You must follow it if you are Nitto for life!
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It seems like they found old foldable handlebars and super long stems while taking inventory in the warehouse! The stem is so sick!
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The other day, a guy from Nitto called us and ask if we want the dead stock items, and then we said why not.
The sending items were wrapped in an old newspaper, which was published over 10 years ago. (Ken Griffey jr. was on a sports column..)
Okay, so these were what we got from them ↓
This is Nitto Tsubasa (6 generation). It is the true time trial handlebar. Tsubasa means wing of a bird in Japanese. That bullhorn bar part looks like wings and gnarly. It is now almost impossible to find an unused one and even a used one was very expensive on ebay.
This can be a great book art, like Antler. Put on your bookshelf or fireplace when you don’t use it 🙂
The Nitto MT-52 is another dead stock parts we found in the Nitto warehouse.
About 6month ago, we got MT-52 in silver and this is the black version. Those are a great match with old school mountain bikes and touring bikes.
The 1st generation of UI (ultimate ideal) stem is a 1inch threadless stem. These look great for a fixed gear bike doesn’t it (like Affinity Lo pro)? but again this is old shool and vintage, so the steerer diameter is 1inch and handlebar clamp diameter is 26mm. You may need to use a Nitto handlebar shim with it.
Nitto sometimes hooks us up and they give the vintage parts like these. We keep crate digging and add on our global site more and more. Nitto rules!
