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flanelcamel
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Rare Galindo Stem

Price:
$950.00
Posted:
Jan 20 '13 9:41PM PST
Shipping:
$14.00
Ship International:
Yes
Trades OK:
No
Company:
Galindo
Category:
Stems
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Very rare Galindo 3 bolt stem from the 80's.  These have a set screw underneath to hold your bars rock solid.  This one came off a VDC freestyler originally with a factory hollow bolt which is even harder to find.  Not many of these out there!  Don't miss it!   Shipping with full insurance will be $14 in the US, international please ask first.

 

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Very cool stem bro!The design is sweet looking.I just can't imagine running a set screw into my bars!Is it a sharp point or flattened on the end?GLWS!

real deal Free style stem. not just a pots mod bolt added to it. Very nice. I have only seen one other freestyle stem. and it had a different color combo.  you never see one come up for sale. GLWS

if I pay you $950.00,I want free shipping wink

Show me the $$$...wink   I may pay for your shipping but it's never free.

Chuckling at this posting, I am one of the few who actually ran a Galindo stem BITD.  Answering the first question, the set screw had a sort of a hollow tip.  It was probably an off the shelf set screw.   My first Galindo Stem was this freestyle model with the hollow wedge bolt.  My first wedge bolt broke when I tightened it down.  Called Galindo, they sent me another bolt.  The second one snapped too as I tightened it - the damn thing shot up out of the stem like a bottle rocket!  At that point, Galindo sent me a pair of their Freestyle handlebars, just to pacify me.   I don't remember if they got me a bolt that worked or if I just ran it with a solid bolt.  Anyway, the stem didn't last long.   But then a couple years later, I found some on clearance at a distributor, and bought two for some reason.  I ran one on my race bike for a few months before it fell apart.  The other one I held onto, until I got online and found other collectors in about 1998 or 99.  The NOS stem went to oldbmxdc and the old Galindo Freestyle bars (with the knurled area marred by that set screw) went to dcbmx1, two of the collectors who have been in this game the longest.   OK, I know that James is probably wondering "Does he have a point to this story." And yes, I would say that the point is that very few of these stems survived the 80's!