The "Raised Reversed Stem" broke my brain. It might be genius.

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  @bonemasterj · 3 years ago

  Obviously time for Seth to make a DROPPER STEM.

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  @TheLotroNerd · 3 years ago

  This is actually really normal geometry to most dirt bikes. The weird geometry is just hidden with a gas tank and plastics which make it look normal.

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  @GregHassler · 3 years ago

  To anyone who has ever ridden a motorcycle, this doesn't look weird at all. Nothing looks weird or unstable here, this is how dirt bikes work.  I routinely extend handlebars up toward me with risers.

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  @BOOSTYBRO · 1 year ago

  Buddy has raised the bar...

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  @danielsotelo3942 · 3 years ago

  TRUE STORY: &nbsp;1986 I left the subsidiary of Shimano, married their secretary, quit my Cat-1 road racing status and started riding mountain bikes. &nbsp;To my surprise I found it extremely difficult to climb on mountain bikes because my hands wanted to be in the road bike gum hood position when climbing. Unfortunately MTB H-Bars do not have such a position(s). &nbsp;So one day I decided to cut some old stems, shimmed them up and bolted them up on the ends of my H-Bars. The next day I want out to ride and discovered I could climb like a Cat-1 road bike pro but on a Mountain Bike...! &nbsp;Little did I know I just invented &quot;BarEnds&quot; and these weird looking handles were about to flip the entire MTB market on its head, and make me a rich man.<br>So I called up my friend who we used to work together at the Japan group/Shimano and asked him to come on over to see my new invention, so maybe we can start our own business together with the $3,000 dollars his mother offered us if we started our own business together. &nbsp;For some time I&apos;ve been telling him I wanted to start a bike biz and name it onZa...<br>Anyways, he shows up and he sees these hideous metal rods sticking out at the end of the H-bars and says &quot;DAN! &nbsp;No one is going to buy and put on those stupid ugly looking things on their mountain bikes. &nbsp;Sorry Dan, I&apos;m not interested I&apos;m going to keep my new Import job I just got.&quot; &nbsp; We then had a few beers and called it a day. &nbsp; About a month later, he calls me to tell me he is not happy at his new job, and wants to know if I made any improvements on my ugly invention? &nbsp;I said yes, come on down we&apos;ll pound a few beers and I tell you how much they&apos;ve improved my mountain bike riding.<br>Just before he went home he said &quot;OK I&apos;ll ask my Mom for the $3,000 dollars and go 50/50 business partners and we&apos;ll use that name onZa.<br>And just like that stem you are testing is exactly what we went through trying to sell BarEnds out of our car visiting bike shops all up and down California. &nbsp;The first bar-ends were hand made by a Porsche exhaust pipe maker. &nbsp;After a year of trying we only did $30K in sales... &nbsp;I was about to throw in the towel when the president of GT bicycles called us in our tiny kitchen office. Richard Long invited us to lunch and wanted to talk to us about our onZa bar-ends. &nbsp;When we met the next day Richard told us how his racing team has been using our bar-ends with great success racking up Cross-country wins. He then shocked us when he said he wanted to spec our onZa bar-ends OEM on two new models for the new year.<br>The rest is onZa history.<br>So yes, I think this ugly duckling of a stem is going to change the MTB industry. &nbsp; Great Job on Your Story, and I think you should partner up with this person and make your suggested improvement(s)!<br>Sincerely, Dan Sotelo aka Mr onZa

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  @saifabdelmajeed1475 · 3 years ago

  I love the fact that you can really hear how annoyed and confused Seth was that he liked how it felt as he rode it 😂😂

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  @shanefortner534 · 3 years ago

  It almost looks like they are trying to take dirt bike steering geometry and put it in mountain bike geometry with that raise stem. Because the way you are describing your mountain bike handling now is pretty similar to a dirt bike. I really want to try one of these stems

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  @GrowlingBearMedia · 1 year ago

  20 years of MTB&apos;s lowering the steering bars so we can now raise them again with a 400 doller pieces of aluminium

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  @thegrimmer · 3 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apyTlND9Cuo&amp;t=539">8:59</a> &quot;There&apos;s nothing you can do to a bike that doesn&apos;t have a benefit and a downside.&quot; Wanna bet? Square tires. Barbwire-wrapped seat. Inflatable front fork. Spaghetti chain.

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  @MattThomas08 · 3 years ago

  It always brings me so much joy how excited Seth gets about something being potentially sketchy. It’s like, if you describe to him a situation that could cause him bodily harm, he’s trying to figure out how to ramp it up one more step. This resonates with me.

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  @TrailDogsMTB · 3 years ago

  I had the pleasure of meeting Bronson when he was still developing this he’s always been so sure of his product. So rad seeing you showcase his product 🙌🏻

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  @TigerDude333 · 2 years ago

  everyone who rides a motorcycle looks at that and thinks &quot;who cares where the bars are, bars just affect where your hands are, not how the bike actually tracks.&quot; &nbsp;So move your CG wherever you want, the forces to the wheel are always through the stem.

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