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Now, we ordered some parts on Danscomp last week and those parts are right here
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Okay, the parts are right here and we're gonna just open them up and take a look
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So you can't see anything here yet. Oh, you can. Can you guys see it
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Does anyone remember what else we got? So I got a stim. You see the stim
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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
0:31
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
0:36
I'll get a seat. Okay. And Kirk, somebody was in commenting, talking about, um, juggernaut pedals
0:43
And so I'll look at those when, when we take a look at the parts, but the, the juggernaut
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pedals, we might take a look at those, um, and maybe get pedals
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I know Jared was in here. Jared has some, um, of the claw centric pedals that I really like
0:58
and he's going to hook it up with those. But maybe we need to try the juggernaut pedals
1:03
I don't know. Okay. So we got an overpriced stim, like Kirk said
1:12
And I think I can just... Yeah, this box isn't that big
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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
1:31
I think green screens look kind of goofy if you don't do them right. Okay, we got the Division Stim
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Hello, camera. What do you guys think about the Division Stim? So here's one thing I'm going to say
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This Stim was like $72 or something ridiculous. It looks nice. I'm not going to lie
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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
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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
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Hi, baby. What's up? It's not for you. Go lay down. Still no knife
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Oh, . Floop. good girl you guys see how good she is she's so trained watch speak speak speak
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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
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I should go get her a treat though okay now oh oh it feels a little bit lighter out of the packaging
3:23
um but it's clean polished we're gonna go polished red look I'm not gonna change the focus sorry
3:36
I do like it though. The engraving looks nice. Like I like this knurling on the top
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I just, the only reason I got this was really the aesthetic. I think it looks really good
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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
3:58
And I think that's going to hold the handlebars. and i think these stem bolts are thinner and lighter than most
4:08
actually so that's kind of cool um sorry i should have been prepared with an allen wrench but i'm not
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how long are your handlebars uh tristan my handlebars are i think i only ride nine and a
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quarter right now the ones on my colony are 8.9 and the ones that for the the
4:35
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
4:52
all right this last bolt is not working out okay that's fine we could just do it this way here
5:01
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
5:16
bit of the grooves division we got that knurling on top i think it looks really nice um but it's a
5:23
little bit heavy i'm a little bit disappointed about that but you know i can i can cry about
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whatever I want, you know, like, but it's a $70 stem guys. It is a $70 stem. So I would expect
5:37
this thing to be made of titanium or gold. Okay. I don't, Oh, there's a reason I'm taking these
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bolts off too. Okay. It is a very nice looking stem, but what I want to do is I was going to
5:51
buy a kitchen scale before I did this is hold on this is my Sunday freeze stem this stem is very
6:07
old and the polish like this is not a nice pot god this stem is gross it's so old um there's just
6:14
this guy dead on the screen. Um, hello, this thing is really gross. It's very used, used and abused
6:23
but $30 Sunday free stim $30 does not feel any heavier than this one. Honestly, it feels lighter
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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
6:38
when we're buying parts remind me okay but 30 wrote it for years no issues now i've broken a
6:45
lot of different stems most of them were shadow stems but i'm gonna put this on i think i'll like
6:51
it looks nice might have a more of a uh upsweep too i'm trying to it's a clean looking stem man
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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
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in the usa he was like some guy who lived in the same town as me that did a lot with racing he's
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an older guy but he made frames and parts and he gave me this stem it's front loaded it's got a
7:27
crazy long reach but anyway this thing is also also a very heavy stem so okay the reason i took off the base plate
7:40
get that out of there because i bought one more thing and it comes with its own custom
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custom bag here thank you look at this bag i don't know it's kind of ghetto to just put it in
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in a little shopping bag but this is what else i got the shadow
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uh alloy hollow stem bolts now these are kind of ridiculous and they're they're extra like do
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you need to pay 13 for some extra bolts no you don't but aren't they beautiful
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they're pretty you know and i'll give that to them they look nice and they are you know what
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But I don't think that they're much lighter than these ones that came on the division than these guys
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Because these, so here, let me show you what I mean. Okay, this is a stem off of that VDC
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It's just a traditional hardware stem, M6 or whatever. And it is pretty chunky
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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
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The ones that came on the division are significantly thinner and they're pretty light
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And then these guys are the same thinness but they're made of alloy and they're also very light
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But I have snapped these before. When I ordered them, that's what somebody said. They're like, hey, you know
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um they said hey these bolts snap and i was like oh yeah trust me i have had that experience before um
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