Dirt Unity Slayer Stem and Adjustable Height Headset Spacer- Sea Otter 2010
The guys from Dirt Unity were making the rounds with some very neat shiny bike parts: an interesting three piece stem called the Slayer, and a novel adjustable height stepped headset spacer. Check out the pics inside!
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Sometimes the neatest things pop up right in front of you. There I was hunkered down in the Pinkbike.com tent at this year's Sea Otter, working hard to bring you guys the latest and greatest, when in walked the guys from Dirt Unity. From out of their backpack came the Slayer stem which certainly looks the business. I didn't get a weight, but the stem looked super solid and they told me that it was the stiffest stem that they've tested on their machines. From what I could tell the Slayer is comprised of three pieces and zero rise. Not much info for now, but I was impressed enough that I thought I'd show you guys as well.
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While the Slayer stem was very nice, their adjustable headset spacer is what caught my attention. Maybe something like this has been done before, but this is the first I've seen of it. It's a simple system where the spacer is split in two and stepped to fit into one another. The steps are cut at different heights so that as you rotate the spacers you are able to raise or lower your stem height. This is most likely not something that you'd do while on the trail, but it could come in handy for dialing in your bar height or swapping forks without having to have a bunch of smaller, loose spacers. Once the headset and stem have been preloaded the spacer shouldn't be able to rotate at all, especially when it's set into one of the lower keyed positions. Not for everyone, but pretty neat!
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The Dirt Unity website is new and lacking any info, but fire them any questions you may have!
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Dirt Unity Slayer stem
Sometimes the neatest things pop up right in front of you. There I was hunkered down in the Pinkbike.com tent at this year's Sea Otter, working hard to bring you guys the latest and greatest, when in walked the guys from Dirt Unity. From out of their backpack came the Slayer stem which certainly looks the business. I didn't get a weight, but the stem looked super solid and they told me that it was the stiffest stem that they've tested on their machines. From what I could tell the Slayer is comprised of three pieces and zero rise. Not much info for now, but I was impressed enough that I thought I'd show you guys as well.
Dirt Unity adjustable spacer - tall setting
While the Slayer stem was very nice, their adjustable headset spacer is what caught my attention. Maybe something like this has been done before, but this is the first I've seen of it. It's a simple system where the spacer is split in two and stepped to fit into one another. The steps are cut at different heights so that as you rotate the spacers you are able to raise or lower your stem height. This is most likely not something that you'd do while on the trail, but it could come in handy for dialing in your bar height or swapping forks without having to have a bunch of smaller, loose spacers. Once the headset and stem have been preloaded the spacer shouldn't be able to rotate at all, especially when it's set into one of the lower keyed positions. Not for everyone, but pretty neat!
Dirt Unity adjustable spacer - low setting
The Dirt Unity website is new and lacking any info, but fire them any questions you may have!
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It's a non-product. Pointless, unworkable, literally useless.
That is seriously one of the worst thought out designs since Flex-Stems.