This has been in the works for some time and the samples just arrived. It’s the top loading version of the previously shown Bones front loading stem from Tempered Bikes. Again, I’m very impressed with the finish of the product. Can’t wait to see these hit the store shelves and online shops later on!

I’ve been posting a bit about Tempered Bikes upcoming products, the Bones stem and the Anchor Down sprocket. I just saw some new shots of the two fine products on a nice blue bike on the Tempered site. This looks so sweet!

Jamie over at Proper Bikes posted this on their blog earlier this month. Reading through it, I have to say that I found it very accurate and to the point. That’s why I decided it is worth spreading the message some more. This was posted as some do’s and don’ts for their stems hat are [...]

Here are a couple of spy shots of a stem that Tempered Bikes will have out soon. The design is all by Tempered, but I’ve helped them with the solid models and the manufacturing drawings for these two samples. By the look of it they’ve turned out really good. Now they just have to make [...]

Did a pretty cool thing with a photo and a 3D rendering of the latest stem sample. Didn’t get the angle and projection exactly right, but it’s pretty close.

A couple of days ago I received a nice little package of things to be tested. It’s the new “Symmetric stem” and the yet to be named cassette hub from Simple Bikes. The stem is short (49mm reach) and works about the same as the previous frontload stem, the “System”. It’s got an internal wedge/piston [...]