You don't appear to be aware that Litespeed always made all their own titanium fittings, as well as making frames for other brands and they incorporated their own fittings into those frames.We_are_Stevo":3q7nqvi9 said:When Litespeed started out they were just another company exploiting a newly available resource...
...most Ti frames/components are made in the Far East with material from the former Soviet Block; the big manufacturers just buy them up and apply their logos before selling them on at a vastly inflated price.
If you Google the Chinese factories you can buy a Ti full susser for about £500; a big brand name buying them by the container load is still making a very healthy profit, even after all the overheads incurred...
This stem is an ahead stem, so it was made long after Litespeed started out, so it's not clear what that reference was supposed to lead on to.
If you look at Litespeed ahead stems, they all employ quite sophisticated clamp arrangements. They never made a stem branded as a Litespeed with this kind of crude double bolt arrangement sticking out. It's possible that they may have made some for another brand under contract, but I personally doubt it, as they didn't want to be associated with down-market things.