so last night you may have seen this post pop up on teamweed420 the bmx meme page that is currently
ruling the land of all meme pages in bmx and you may have seen it and kind of wondered what what is
this all about and then you may have creeped your way into the comments and seen that there are a
lot of people hating on this stem right here what stem is it well that's what we're going to talk
about in this video and kind of ask the question why are so many people so upset about this stem
the stem is the cinema projector stem the concept behind this is basically a front load stem with
top load rise it's got 25 millimeters of rise and it accomplishes this with an extra bit of
material on the bottom that you're seeing right now that allows it to be at more of an angle while
retaining the front load feature of it and then it's also got a little bit more machining out of
the top of it for your headset cap to go in the recessed headset cap design that you've seen in
a lot of other stems just a little bit extra on the front of it taken out with that there's not a
whole lot more different about this stem and it kind of begs the question like why are so many
people so upset about this thing but before we get to that a few more pieces of information about the
stem it's made from 6061 aluminum it's 11.6 ounces it only costs 54.99 and it comes in black polished
or iceberg blue you can get it at bike shops or mail orders anywhere that has access to blackout
distribution and cinema bmx parts and now to get to the part of the video that i think a lot of
you might be here for why does it feel like so many people are so upset about this stem i don't
know if it's just the people on instagram who are leaving comments or what but when you go on the
internet right now and you see these posts and you see all of the comments on them you really get the
feel that just this is the thing to hate in bmx right now and i don't understand why it's truly a
mystery to me i saw this thing in person and held it at rey's way back last winter at their blackout
dealer appreciation night and it just was another stem to me it was kind of cool of a concept it was
like oh this is something different and i don't know if it's just something to do with the fact
that this thing is different and looks different than other stems that are out there or if it has
something to do with the fact that there's really not much to hate on in bmx right now and it really
genuinely feels like bmx is a giant herd mentality i don't know if that has anything to do with it or
what but it's definitely a real thing if you think back to the trends of things that have
been hated in bmx in the past and i don't know if this stem has anything about it that necessarily
warrants it to be something that is universally hated on in bmx if you guys have any insight or
you absolutely hate this thing and you have a genuine reason for it let me know in the
comments down below because i'm curious and like i said i saw it in person i thought it was just kind
of a cool concept if you want a front load stem and you like the look of it but your back hurts
or you need a taller rise then this is something for you you get to keep the front load look while
having the rise of a top load stem some people don't like the look of top load some people don't
like the look of front load it's all freestyle and i'm genuinely confused on this whole topic and
of course you're always gonna have people on both sides of the fence of things you're gonna have the
people that absolutely love this thing and might not be vocal on these posts then you're gonna have
the people who are hating on it and vocal on this post then you're gonna have the majority of people
who are the silent majority that probably just don't care and that's something that i definitely
want to address here because there's probably a lot more people that just really don't even
care at all than care on one side or the other but if all we see are the vocal minority of
people hating on this thing and every single time something new comes out and people just hate on it
eventually companies are going to get sick of putting time and resources into something new
and then having it be hated so they just stop all together and you end up kind of where we're at in
bmx right now where everyone makes the same it all looks the same and everyone's psyched on it
all and it's all the best thing ever even though it's all realistically the same thing made in the
same factory about the same people using the same tubing with different logos on it and with that
i feel like it deserves its own meme i made one right here that i think fits this situation pretty
well because you've got people who are screaming for something different in bmx we want something
different then you give them something and then they scream and yell that they hate it and it's
the worst thing ever and then you give them what they're used to having and they're like hey
and that's where this comes in and that brings up another point here there have been some
pretty ugly looking stems that have come out in the bmx world i'm not gonna show pictures or
anything like that everyone has their go-to ugly stem whenever that is said and this is coming from
someone who firmly believes in freestyle and being different and being yourself and all these things
and the differences between this cinema projector stem and other just normal mainstream bmx stems
that are out right now are nowhere near as severe as the differences between some of the crazy stems
that have come out in the past and what is out there now and what was out there at the time
so that's another thing that kind of just leads me to believe that this is another one of those
bandwagon hate situations and people are just kind of jumping on board because maybe it's
fun to talk [ __ ] could it be that simple let me know i think that's a lot of what's going on here
i could be wrong though let me know if i am in the comments down below leave your input
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