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This is my Joe.<\/p>\n
I’ve always wanted to use the Nitto x Rivendell Albastach Bar. It’s a pretty unique handlebar, so I couldn’t get myself to commit to actually installing it on any of my bikes.<\/p>\n
But, I decided to push myself and installed it, with a new stem.
\nThe stem is what I really want to write about.<\/p>\n
Swapping handlebars for a Rivendell bike, is a bit hard at times.
\nQuill stems often have closed clamps with one bolt.<\/p>\n
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It’s so painful to take of the twined grips, especially when they’re beautifully aged and you already know you would want to swap the bars back again at some point.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
But now, you can say good bye to those problems with these awesome stems<\/p>\n
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POWER TO THE PEOPLE !!<\/p>\n
We’re finally able to swap bars without tearing the twine grips.<\/p>\n
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They look absolutely amazing and they are 25.4mm 4 bolt open clamp stems. It’s perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":129154,"template":"","better_featured_image":{"id":129154,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1280,"height":853,"file":"2021\/11\/DSC07074.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"DSC07074-640x427.jpg","width":640,"height":427,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":44690,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC07074-640x427.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"DSC07074-900x600.jpg","width":900,"height":600,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":72696,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC07074-900x600.jpg"},"large":{"file":"DSC07074-1179x786.jpg","width":1179,"height":786,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":108030,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC07074-1179x786.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"DSC07074-800x600.jpg","width":800,"height":600,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":66061,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC07074-800x600.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]},"filesize":240109},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC07074.jpg"},"acf":{"not_to_displayed_on_top":null,"ctm-post-priority":null},"post-meta-fields":{"_edit_lock":["1647745228:48"],"_edit_last":["48"],"_my_meta_value_key":["[{\"pid\":35876,\"name\":\"*NITTO* FW33 power stem (dull)\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/nitto-fw33-power-stem-dull.html\",\"src\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/58380b5adbf00c5b2741afb4fc1b2f76\/1\/d\/1dsc01722.jpg\"},{\"pid\":35894,\"name\":\"*NITTO* FW30 power stem (dull)\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/nitto-fw30-power-stem-dull.html\",\"src\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/58380b5adbf00c5b2741afb4fc1b2f76\/1\/d\/1dsc01719_1.jpg\"},{\"pid\":35885,\"name\":\"*NITTO* FW30 power stem (black)\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/nitto-fw30-power-stem-bkack.html\",\"src\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/58380b5adbf00c5b2741afb4fc1b2f76\/1\/d\/1dsc01754.jpg\"},{\"pid\":35866,\"name\":\"*NITTO* FW33 power stem (black)\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/nitto-fw33-power-stem-bkack.html\",\"src\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/58380b5adbf00c5b2741afb4fc1b2f76\/1\/d\/1dsc01761.jpg\"}]"],"_thumbnail_id":["129154"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review-global\/131808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review-global"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review-global"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}