Unboxing my new stem

Now, we ordered some parts on Danscomp last week and those parts are right here

Okay, the parts are right here and we're gonna just open them up and take a look

So you can't see anything here yet. Oh, you can. Can you guys see it

Does anyone remember what else we got? So I got a stim. You see the stim

What else did I get? I didn't get the seat. I don't know if you guys saw in the post, I changed my mind last minute

I'm like, I am way too broke to buy a seat and a stem. I'm not going to buy the seat yet, but I will eventually

I'll get a seat. Okay. And Kirk, somebody was in commenting, talking about, um, juggernaut pedals

And so I'll look at those when, when we take a look at the parts, but the, the juggernaut

pedals, we might take a look at those, um, and maybe get pedals

I know Jared was in here. Jared has some, um, of the claw centric pedals that I really like

and he's going to hook it up with those. But maybe we need to try the juggernaut pedals

I don't know. Okay. So we got an overpriced stim, like Kirk said

And I think I can just... Yeah, this box isn't that big

so I'm just going to tweak this a little bit. And I should get a green screen behind me so it's just like me in the background, but I don't know

I think green screens look kind of goofy if you don't do them right. Okay, we got the Division Stim

Hello, camera. What do you guys think about the Division Stim? So here's one thing I'm going to say

This Stim was like $72 or something ridiculous. It looks nice. I'm not going to lie

like that's a nice looking stem but it's kind of heavy it's kind of heavy all right and that's the first thing i noticed when i opened it

seventy dollars for this stem and hi joey she thinks i have a treat or something seventy dollars for the stem and um it it a bit heavy but I going to take it out of the packaging

Hi, baby. What's up? It's not for you. Go lay down. Still no knife

Oh, . Floop. good girl you guys see how good she is she's so trained watch speak speak speak

speak yes good dog spin good dog okay lay down I'll get you a treat later okay anyway sorry I had to give her some attention

I should go get her a treat though okay now oh oh it feels a little bit lighter out of the packaging

um but it's clean polished we're gonna go polished red look I'm not gonna change the focus sorry

I do like it though. The engraving looks nice. Like I like this knurling on the top

I just, the only reason I got this was really the aesthetic. I think it looks really good

I'm going to pull these off and show you guys kind of the knurling on the inside. There's not a whole lot, but it does like there's a little bit of grooves in there

And I think that's going to hold the handlebars. and i think these stem bolts are thinner and lighter than most

actually so that's kind of cool um sorry i should have been prepared with an allen wrench but i'm not

how long are your handlebars uh tristan my handlebars are i think i only ride nine and a

quarter right now the ones on my colony are 8.9 and the ones that for the the

Sunday are nine and a quarter and I like the 8 more but the 8 are on Odyssey are 25s and they have a stupid stack height like that whole setup is way taller than the shadow voltus forks uh with nine and a quarter it feels taller anyway

all right this last bolt is not working out okay that's fine we could just do it this way here

look at the top down guys what do you think this is the division stem look at that look at that etching in there look at you can see a little

bit of the grooves division we got that knurling on top i think it looks really nice um but it's a

little bit heavy i'm a little bit disappointed about that but you know i can i can cry about

whatever I want, you know, like, but it's a $70 stem guys. It is a $70 stem. So I would expect

this thing to be made of titanium or gold. Okay. I don't, Oh, there's a reason I'm taking these

bolts off too. Okay. It is a very nice looking stem, but what I want to do is I was going to

buy a kitchen scale before I did this is hold on this is my Sunday freeze stem this stem is very

old and the polish like this is not a nice pot god this stem is gross it's so old um there's just

this guy dead on the screen. Um, hello, this thing is really gross. It's very used, used and abused

but $30 Sunday free stim $30 does not feel any heavier than this one. Honestly, it feels lighter

And I think it is just by like a couple ounces. If you look it up, I don't know. We'll look it up

when we're buying parts remind me okay but 30 wrote it for years no issues now i've broken a

lot of different stems most of them were shadow stems but i'm gonna put this on i think i'll like

it looks nice might have a more of a uh upsweep too i'm trying to it's a clean looking stem man

what do you guys think was this a good choice or no now this this is just a random random stem this guy voris dixon he can he can really see it on there it says vdc this was behind me um vdc usa he had these made

in the usa he was like some guy who lived in the same town as me that did a lot with racing he's

an older guy but he made frames and parts and he gave me this stem it's front loaded it's got a

crazy long reach but anyway this thing is also also a very heavy stem so okay the reason i took off the base plate

get that out of there because i bought one more thing and it comes with its own custom

custom bag here thank you look at this bag i don't know it's kind of ghetto to just put it in

in a little shopping bag but this is what else i got the shadow

uh alloy hollow stem bolts now these are kind of ridiculous and they're they're extra like do

you need to pay 13 for some extra bolts no you don't but aren't they beautiful

they're pretty you know and i'll give that to them they look nice and they are you know what

But I don't think that they're much lighter than these ones that came on the division than these guys

Because these, so here, let me show you what I mean. Okay, this is a stem off of that VDC

It's just a traditional hardware stem, M6 or whatever. And it is pretty chunky

Okay, my phone won't focus that close. It's a pretty chunky stem bolt and I think that's what you're going to find on most stems

The ones that came on the division are significantly thinner and they're pretty light

And then these guys are the same thinness but they're made of alloy and they're also very light

But I have snapped these before. When I ordered them, that's what somebody said. They're like, hey, you know

um they said hey these bolts snap and i was like oh yeah trust me i have had that experience before um