{"id":183267,"date":"2026-10-13T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/?post_type=global&p=183267"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:16:57","slug":"nitto-single-pinch-stem","status":"publish","type":"global","link":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/global\/nitto-single-pinch-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitto Single Pinch Stem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, good morning, good evening!<\/p>\n

This is Samba from Blue Lug Yoyogi Park.<\/p>\n

There are all kinds of bike parts in the world that bike nerds dream of owning, but there\u2019s one part I\u2019ve personally been obsessed with for years, and it still hasn\u2019t lost its appeal.<\/p>\n

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(Photo borrowed from eBay.)<\/i><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the vintage chromoly stem from Salsa.<\/p>\n

I think my first encounter with one was seeing it on a track bike.<\/p>\n

Back when I barely even knew what Salsa was, something about this stem just clicked with me. It looked really cool. With one bolt on the steerer side and another on the handlebar side, its integrated faceplate creates this smooth, uninterrupted silhouette from the stem into the handlebar. I\u2019ve always loved that look.<\/p>\n

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(theradavist.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I started getting interested in them the same way you get into vintage clothing. I couldn\u2019t get my hands on a frame, but a stem? That seemed doable. Whenever I came across one secondhand, I\u2019d pick it up here and there. They\u2019re parts with a lot of memories attached to them for me. (Although sometimes I\u2019d buy one without checking the specs properly, only to find out the clamp diameter was 26.0mm…)<\/p>\n

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(theradavist.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

This is the kind of look I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n

A lot of people have used them on track bikes because of the simplicity of the design.<\/p>\n

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