What year did we start using ahead stems?

[toons]

Hello Dudes

As above; What year did we start using ahead stems\headsets?

Cheers
Toons

 

[cce]

it varies a lot - kona and orange for example kept using quills right up til around 1997. many manufacturers had changed over by 1994-1995

 

[Radar]

Pace invented the concept in 1643 apparently but no-one believed them. So they were burnt as witches. The bicycle was the Devil's instrument in those days. Pace historians rediscovered the concept in 1989 ish but again no-one believed them for a few years

 

[orange71]

personally? 1995.

 

[Max P]

See here - t'was a Tioga invention (I think?) and appeared in the '93 catalogue:

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/vi...days=0&postorder=asc&highlight=tioga&start=75

 

[toons]

It’s for a 1991 frame, so bit too early, if you wanna be picky.

 

[kanerdog1x1]

dia compe showed it first at a show in 1990 or 1991, so i suppose you would be ok on a 91 frame, but getting an original headset and stem could prove difficult, as there werent many choices in the early days.


oh, and they didnt burn, as witches are fire-proof.

 

[kanerdog1x1]

oh, and it was invented by a bloke in a shed, sold to dia-compe for 'lots of money'.

but i expect the bloke is gutted now, knowing how much more he should have sold the design for.

 

[Radar]

...sorry too much cough medicine. Pace may well have invented the aheadset as the RC100 had a drilled out Shimano 105 headset which adjusted by allen key. Clearly a forefather of the aheadset dating from 1989 or thereabouts

 

[Radar]

.... ducking stools - drown - you're innocent, survive you're a witch so burnt.