Internet Rummagings – The 3 Bike Esses (Shiny, Spinny, and …err… Stemmy)

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Welcome to the results of this month’s rummaging around the World Wide Web’s bike shop, we’ve got shiny things, spinny things and, err stemmy things! Yoshimura Cycling First up we have Yoshimura, who fulfil all the above three esses. They are a US company who (like many of the companies featured in my rummagings) are firstly a moto brand (who make titanium exhausts), and have seen the light and all that is good about MTBing, and decided to make a few things for us. Though, not cards to go in spokes to replicate exhaust noises, I lament. First we’ll cover...

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  • Internet Rummagings – The 3 Bike Esses (Shiny, Spinny, and …err… Stemmy)
  • sillyoldman
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    Cromo is a steel alloy.

    Posted 1 year ago
    matt_outandabout
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    Cromo is a steel alloy.

    My brow furrowed at that one too…

    Nice pin colours though.

    Posted 1 year ago
    rfreeman
    Full Member

    All steels are alloys…

    2oomm lower BB is quite a change. I feel a little worried by the opposite change – a BB 200mm *higher*. Ouch. That’s unlikely to feel good.

    Posted 1 year ago
    stwhannah
    Full Member

    How about ‘it’s a different steel alloy to the usual CroMo’ then?

    Posted 1 year ago
    Northwind
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    Oh god, I want those yoshi pedals. I don’t even care if they’re good- their exhausts are mostly not all that great but I still wanted one of those.

    Posted 1 year ago
    sillyoldman
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    @hannah A bit of info would be good. They’re not cheap pedals, so would be good to know what and why.

    As rfreeman says – all steels are alloys, so it’s a very vague statement. There are different cromos 4130 being the most common, but 4140 is good for axles for example.

    Posted 1 year ago
    Rubber_Buccaneer
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    Yoshimura’s website says

    Proprietary alloy steel CNC machined, and heat-treated spindle is strong – yet resilient

    And this Pinkbike article from a couple of years ago says

    Heat treated nickel-chromoly steel spindle

    Posted 1 year ago
    stwhannah
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    @sillyoldman sorry, they didn’t tell me at Sea Otter, and as @rubber_Buccaneer points out, their website doesn’t reveal the precise info. Perhaps I should just have left Tom’s words alone and not added the extra bits and pieces I got from talking to them!

    Posted 1 year ago
    rfreeman
    Full Member

    Interesting discussion. It led me to revise some metallurgy, and get engrossed in a totally irrelevant rabbit hole about sulphur in steels. Anyway, those pedals are glorious, but are they as nice as Hope’s pedals? Coloured pins… want.

    Posted 1 year ago
    tomhoward
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    Out of interest, what do we all think of the idea behind the ENDH stem? As in a really low stack base plate connected to the steerer, with a direct mount stem bolted to that?

    Posted 1 year ago
    sillyoldman
    Full Member

    More bolts, more weight, more chance of creaks from more interfaces, and less area on the steerer supporting the load all seem like bad ideas.

    Great if your steerer is too short for a conventional stem, otherwise I don’t get it.

    Posted 1 year ago
    Rubber_Buccaneer
    Full Member

    To me the ENDH stem looks like extra complication for no benefit. I’d have to really, really want that low stack to get me out of a problem and I can’t see that happening.

    Posted 1 year ago
    bikedibley
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    I bought a set of the Chilao pedals 18 months ago….ish. At the time Yoshimura weren’t shipping outside the US so I had them shipped multiple times around the country before eventually landing with me here in the UK. They’re things of beauty.

    Posted 1 year ago
    bentudder
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    I’ve seen them there Titan headlock / topcap arrangements, and they’re really well made, well-finished bits of kit.

    Posted 1 year ago
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