Not terrible and that company still makes suspension stems and seatpost under the Kinekt brand name.
tejaprabha_buddha on
It’s not terrible at all. Suspension stems are made today with a similar principle. These flex stems run on elastomers that can be purchased easily and provided that they are maintained they are bomb proof. I’m an absolute fan of these and I have two. There’s about a billion of these in circulation and that’s why they’re dirt cheap.
Are they a replacement for a suspension fork, as originally promised in the 90’s? Absolutely not. But they make jumping off curbs and gravel rides a lot more fun.
chillaxtion on
Ah, the suspend the rider, not the bike era.
Has anyone else ridden a Softride beam bike? [We had a Breezer shop](http://www.mountainbikecatalogue.com/breezer/1990-1999/1993/beamer.html) bike in San Francisco when I worked at Avenue Cycle or something like that. The beam bike was truly horrible but these stems were not that bad.
The worst thing about them is that they messed up pulling up on the bars because you first had to remove the preload. it made it hard to wheelie. I’ve got a [JP Morgen stem](https://patineto.smugmug.com/MorgenMachine/Bicycles/JP-Suspension-stem) like this that’s oil damped etc. that’s a lot worse than that stem because it has more travel.
Those Girven stems took the edge off a bit. Kind nice in a road application actually.
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Is the tension adjustable?
Not terrible and that company still makes suspension stems and seatpost under the Kinekt brand name.
It’s not terrible at all. Suspension stems are made today with a similar principle. These flex stems run on elastomers that can be purchased easily and provided that they are maintained they are bomb proof. I’m an absolute fan of these and I have two. There’s about a billion of these in circulation and that’s why they’re dirt cheap.
Are they a replacement for a suspension fork, as originally promised in the 90’s? Absolutely not. But they make jumping off curbs and gravel rides a lot more fun.
Ah, the suspend the rider, not the bike era.
Has anyone else ridden a Softride beam bike? [We had a Breezer shop](http://www.mountainbikecatalogue.com/breezer/1990-1999/1993/beamer.html) bike in San Francisco when I worked at Avenue Cycle or something like that. The beam bike was truly horrible but these stems were not that bad.
The worst thing about them is that they messed up pulling up on the bars because you first had to remove the preload. it made it hard to wheelie. I’ve got a [JP Morgen stem](https://patineto.smugmug.com/MorgenMachine/Bicycles/JP-Suspension-stem) like this that’s oil damped etc. that’s a lot worse than that stem because it has more travel.
Those Girven stems took the edge off a bit. Kind nice in a road application actually.