Italmanubri has been making stems and handlebars for bicycles for a long long time now. This past summer they announced they would be closing their doors as they could no longer be competitive in today's market. They made some of the most beautiful bike parts available. This is the last of the forged stems they continued to make right up until calling it quits. They didn't disappear because they were making outdated or antiquated bike parts, they also made some of the lightest and most advanced carbon fiber and magnesium bars and stems available today. I believe the ITM "THE STEM" that they produced five or six years ago is still the lightest stem ever available for a bicycle. But this one, the forged one, it's beautiful enough to want to get a bike to go with it.
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