Jez Nemeth
Retro Guru
Yes -read a lot about Passivation of Aluminium/Heat treatments -Hiduminium, for one. Aluminium alloys tend to get harder with age, but if there's been a regular stress/knock/impact.earlier in their history, they can just go.
With the Maes bars that came with the bike, I like the GB stem, can't get it off the bars without cold spreading the clamp -given the age and unknown history of the bars tempted to cut them in half so they can't be used again by anyone. Steel of the same era, if not showing rust -probably have more trust in.
With the Maes bars that came with the bike, I like the GB stem, can't get it off the bars without cold spreading the clamp -given the age and unknown history of the bars tempted to cut them in half so they can't be used again by anyone. Steel of the same era, if not showing rust -probably have more trust in.