{"id":1049,"date":"2013-01-24T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T23:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2015-06-11T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:08:57","slug":"how-bicycle-stems-and-seatposts-are-made-at-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/2013\/01\/how-bicycle-stems-and-seatposts-are-made-at-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"How bicycle stems and seatposts are made at Thomson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tour the shop floor of\u00a0LH Thomson, creators of the Elite dropper seatpost<\/h1>\n<p>Macon, Georgia\u2014Attention engineers, industrial designers, and devotees of <a href=\"\/\/bikethomson.com\/\">Thomson<\/a> bike seatposts, stems, and handlebars: you can <strong>tour the LH Thomson machine shop online<\/strong>, thanks to the editors of\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.bikerumor.com\/2013\/01\/24\/factory-tour-lh-thomsons-massive-stem-seatpost-aerospace-machine-shop\/\">bikerumor.com<\/a>.\u00a0Needless to say, the keen guests\u00a0took plenty of photos. You can <a href=\"\/\/www.bikerumor.com\/2013\/01\/24\/factory-tour-lh-thomsons-massive-stem-seatpost-aerospace-machine-shop\/\">tour the Thompon factory<\/a>\u00a0in words and pictures, and <a href=\"\/\/youtu.be\/_ApBdY7KnX8\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ApBdY7KnX8?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the video filmed by bikerumor.com, watch how Thomson:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>turns a blank into a stem body<\/li>\n<li>smooths a seatpost cradle<\/li>\n<li>laser-engraves specs and logos on their seatposts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/bikethomson.com\/\"><strong>About LH Thomson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/bikethomson.com\/\">Thomson<\/a>\u00a0designs and produces patented bicycles components. The metal fabrication and manufacturing utilized at Thomson is world-class, and produces top-tier products with the ultimate in strength and weight-savings principles. <a href=\"\/\/bikethomson.com\/seatposts\/\">Thomson seatposts, stems, and handlebars<\/a> for bikes are available from selected <a href=\"\/\/www.livetoplaysports.com\/en\/find-a-dealer\/\">cycle and sport dealers in Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tour the shop floor of\u00a0LH Thomson, creators of the Elite dropper seatpost Macon, Georgia\u2014Attention engineers, industrial designers, and devotees of Thomson bike seatposts, stems, and handlebars: you can tour the LH Thomson machine shop online, thanks to the editors of\u00a0bikerumor.com.\u00a0Needless&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[40,160,159,158,88,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5507,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}