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I love the V5, here are some pictures of the v5 with a Choco on my Moonshiner. If I was going to use a non-moose Bosco on a Gus, I would only use a v5, I had a non-moose Bosco with a Technomic on my Sam, and had to use a shim, the bar would slip unless I tightened the stem as hard down as absolutely possible. Now I have a Bosco Moose on the Sam, perfection! So... 100% no go Bosco/Technomic for off-road roughstuff unless mated with a v5, I say this from experience. An aside, if you order a v5 from Blue Lug check out the brass spacers or the Nitto spacers, both are fabricated to mate perfectly with the v5.
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On Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 2:47:43 PM UTC-5 Mackenzy Albright wrote:I've found boscos to be very lenient with their "fitting". The only time I haven't liked them is when they are way too close. I have yet to have them too far. I find the bar tilt also drastically effects the reach - if that is a thing of concern.I absolutely love the looks of the V-5 stem. On the bike's I've seen with boscos/loscos and V5's installed I haven't taken much notice. Could always "riv it up" and wrap it with some cotton tape and twine. I haven't had issues with a faceplate chromoly stem and loscos but imagine it'd give the confidence of the boscomoose.On Monday, February 13, 2023 at 5:56:35 PM UTC-8 rmro...@gmail.com wrote:Two separate questions. Regarding the Bosco; I am curious how others approach the Bosco from a fit perspective. I love mine on my Clem. Its a 540 wide and came with a 135 FacePlater. Mine is positioned with the tips between 2"-3" above the saddle nose. With the 135 stem those tips come back perhaps not as far as most folks? When pedaling, the tips do not come back far enough to cross an imaginary line between my knee caps. Turning the bar the tips do cross this line but the bars are high enough to pass over the knees - no contact. I fiddled with this a lot when I got the bike and the way I have it really works well for me. I am just curious how other folks have these handlebars set up particularly on a Gus / Susie? Thanks in advance for sharing.Regarding the V--5 stem, I just really like it & am considering using one on my Gus. Any drawbacks? From a purely aesthetic perspective it kind of bothers me that the knurled center portion of the bar is exposed. A minor thing I know...
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On Feb 15, 2023, at 2:14 PM, Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Feb 16, 2023, at 2:55 PM, greenteadrinkers <greentea...@gmail.com> wrote:
Just mounted a Billie bar to my V5, I would say both Choco, and Billie bars are compatible. Regarding the Bosco Bullmoose, I agree with Keith's comment above. Below, is the Billie bar with the V5. Also, a few details show the space between the stem and the front cap of the stem, looking at images at Blue Lug, there is no gap, guessing that's not a big issue, but thought I'd point it out. The bolt extends outside of the rear port, so there's no loss in bolt length. Wow, wonder how much ($$$) a modern remake of the Slingshot would cost?<IMG-9813.jpg><IMG-9816.jpg><IMG-9818.jpg>
On Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 1:46:18 PM UTC-5 iamkeith wrote:On Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 12:14:57 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote:Interesting; I just glommed on the V5, which I'd not seen before. It seems to be a good design for bars where the moment of force is relatively high, like many of the current Rivendell bars.Curious: I can see how a Technomic would be wholly overwhelmed by a Bosco. But what about a wide-faced, 4-bolt single-clamp stem? The only examples of these last are the Ritchey 4-bolt faceplate threadless stems I have on 2 bikes, but I wonder if these might hold a Bosco in place firmly without requiring over tightening of the bolts?This is not an idle question; I may try a bosco or tosco or some other such long sweepback bar on the Monocog 29er, and I'd not want to have to buy a new V5 stem as well as a new, expensive, bar.Patrick, just in case it isn't clear: The V5 stem probably only works with Nitto-made bars. The Tosco, even in the narrower 25.4 versions, lack the long sleeve swaged onto the clamp area. On nitto bars, i know it works with the Bosco, but I think it might even be worth double checking to make sure the sleeve is long enough on the Billie, Chaco, Wavie, etc. Starting with the Billie bar, Nitto adopted a new manufacturing method that combined a bulged section WITH a sleeve. For the Bosco and older models, the clamp diameter was made up entirely with a swaged sleeve - like their drop bars.Regarding clamp force: Ive experimented with boscos quite a bit. I found a steel, ritchey force stem with a broad clamp surface, to be adequate, even with a single bolt. I was eventually able to get them to work in a technomic stem, and not slip after tightening enough, but found this unsatisfactory for another reason. The aluminum bars flex in a torsional way, and the narrower clamp width exacerbated this. I think this anti-torsion characteristic of wide clamps would be the best part of the V5 stem.Ultimately, I found the steel bullmoose version to be the only Bosco I can use - despite wishing the angle was different (I wish the ends angled down more). The steel is less flexy and the effective stem length is 150mm which is still barely long enough. It's hard to find long stems these days. (This is the problem with the OG slingshot stems, especially. I have one in my parts bin and keep hoping to use it, but it never works. I'll eventually get custom bars for it.)All of this became moot for me, once the Tosco came out. It offers all of the bosco benefits while fixing most of its flaws. But, as I noted, it won't work with the V5 stem unfortunately.On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:45 AM greenteadrinkers <greentea...@gmail.com> wrote:I love the V5, here are some pictures of the v5 with a Choco on my Moonshiner. If I was going to use a non-moose Bosco on a Gus, I would only use a v5, I had a non-moose Bosco with a Technomic on my Sam, and had to use a shim, the bar would slip unless I tightened the stem as hard down as absolutely possible. Now I have a Bosco Moose on the Sam, perfection! So... 100% no go Bosco/Technomic for off-road roughstuff unless mated with a v5, I say this from experience. An aside, if you order a v5 from Blue Lug check out the brass spacers or the Nitto spacers, both are fabricated to mate perfectly with the v5.
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On Feb 17, 2023, at 4:17 PM, Mackenzy Albright <mackenzy...@gmail.com> wrote:
Watch out - ordering from blue lug can become a problem. The first order shows up in 4 days. The next thing you know you have another package coming with "just a few more parts to finish the build".
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On Feb 22, 2023, at 3:46 PM, greenteadrinkers <greentea...@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting... was just watching a video via Radavist called "Rivendell Susie Longbolts/Wolbis Slugstone (First Ride) @ Marshall Canyon" at around 6 min 30 seconds in the rider has to stop and tighten his quill 4-bolt face plater and manages to break one of the bolts! Looks like the stem is paired with a Losco. Gotta love the "You guys have beach cruisers" comment from a passerby.
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On Feb 22, 2023, at 3:14 PM, greenteadrinkers <greentea...@gmail.com> wrote:
Looks great! BL does a really nice job with the spacers. Would be super cool to see a quill version of the V5.
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On Feb 22, 2023, at 4:27 PM, Richard Rose <rmro...@gmail.com> wrote:
With the extra inch cut of the steerer.
On Feb 22, 2023, at 10:00 PM, Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Feb 23, 2023, at 12:14 PM, lconley <lco...@brph.com> wrote:
I am not surprised that he broke one of the stem bolts. Once fairly tight, you sneak up on the tightening, about 1/4 turn per bolt (which should have been installed with grease or never-seize), on all the bolts in a criss-cross pattern, and repeat. You also check that the gaps are equal on both sides of the bar clamp/face plate. You don't just crank down as hard as you can on each bolt.
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