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Old 09-05-2015, 12:45 PM
eddief eddief is offline
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was discussed on the Salon a while back

sounds like some folk believe drilling would work:

http://www.velocipedesalon.com/forum...stem-3538.html

Maybe out of context, so watch out:

"The stress in the stem is near the ends of the strut..... not in the middle. It's like plunking a hole in a down tube to put in a bottle boss. Frames don't break at the bottle boss and your stem won't fail at the hole of it's not near the ends of the strut."

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