Nitto stem comparo picture

[Patrick Moore]

I stumbled across this just now and thought it might be of interest to listers.

I'm not familiar with the "Dynamic." Is it a low-budget version of the Pearl? (Note: The old Pearls had noticeably better finish, and pantographed logo, compared to the newer ones.)

Patrick Moore, shortly to swap a 9 cm (labeled 8) latter-day Pearl for a 8.5 cm (8 labeled) NTD.

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Patrick Moore

Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum

[Garth]

I find this fun and useful also !

http://yojimg.net/bike/web_tools/stem.php

[Patrick Moore]

Yes, that has to be among the top 1% of the most useful bike pages. I remember back in the old days (he said, snuffling bitterly into his yellowed beard) trying to find out the reach and rise for a custom stem so that I could tell Salsa what I wanted. I managed to get 2 customs from them that worked very well, but it involved a lot of guessing and hit and miss to get the right cardboard template (IIRC, I sent them such templates and said: "Make this!") I've very successfully fine-tuned the reach and rise for the Matthews's stem using Jim's site. The only difficulty -- 'cause it's clamp-on -- is that I went through about 4 or 5 different stems and the resultant $$$ before I hit stem Nirvana.

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:46 AM Garth <gart...@gmail.com> wrote:

I find this fun and useful also !

http://yojimg.net/bike/web_tools/stem.php

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[Matt Dreher]

The Dynamic is sort of a lower-budget Pearl in that it's a road stem with a shorter usable length in the quill than a Technomic. It's not a direct replacement, though. The extension has a wider profile that thickens as it approaches the clamp, which is in turn about 5mm thicker on each side than a Pearl or Technomic. This means that some bars that fit Pearls and Technomics fine can't be threaded through, the Noodle among them.

I've tried it against a Technomic and that thickness does in fact translate to noticeably more lateral stiffness. Great for a bike that you intend to be a hard-sprinting goon on, which is what I use mine for.

[Patrick Moore]

Thanks, Matt.

I just swapped out a "8 cm" Nitto Pearl for a "8 cm" Nitto Technomic Deluxe. Posting here what I posted on the Boblist: The "8 cm" Nitto Pearl measures 9 cm from center of bolt to center of clamp, ruler lying flat along the top of the extension, and it weighs 300 grams on my hi tek digital scale. The "8 cm" Tech Deluxe measures 8.5 cm ditto, and weighs 310 grams only, despite the very much longer quill and, expecially, the much longer steel bolt. The old Specialized quill stems that Riv sold back in the '90s, which were the first I used on my 2 Rivs and which, I think, were made by Nitto, measured 8 cm ditto for stems labeled "8 cm." I don't recall the weights.

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 3:21 PM Matt Dreher <99m...@gmail.com> wrote:

The Dynamic is sort of a lower-budget Pearl in that it's a road stem with a shorter usable length in the quill than a Technomic. It's not a direct replacement, though. The extension has a wider profile that thickens as it approaches the clamp, which is in turn about 5mm thicker on each side than a Pearl or Technomic. This means that some bars that fit Pearls and Technomics fine can't be threaded through, the Noodle among them.

I've tried it against a Technomic and that thickness does in fact translate to noticeably more lateral stiffness. Great for a bike that you intend to be a hard-sprinting goon on, which is what I use mine for.

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