I had a lot of these parts for a WHILE. I guess I was just saving up for tires. I've had the frame for well over a year, same can be said about the bars, crankset, and all the little parts. The stem is schwinn, the bars are VO porteurs, the crankset is from a schwinn fastback, the pedals were pulled off of my wife's 67 jet fire. The bars are wrapped with Newbaums bar tape and shellacked