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I bought the stem and bar right away when received my brand new DH bike. It's
a very good compromise at first sight in between price, weight and product
reliability… but for the Bar only. Yeah because the 1st day I've been using
them, I just slipped the front wheel in a corner because of leaves : it was a
very slow speed and soft crash I had and the bar just touched the ground while
the bike was slipping, despite it, the stem twisted itself and made my cockpit
angled for few degrees and was impossible to fix it.
For the stem I swithed to a RaceFace directmount which is a little bit heavier
but a way stronger with only 1 position which makes the back support wall
thickness bigger. I had then another crash in a brunch of trees : the bar is
really good one tho, lightweight, large and stiff and indestructible. I killed
a tree, the bar had nothing even the new raceface stem!.
June 10, 2016, 2:14 a.m. - qblambda
#!markdown I bought the stem and bar right away when received my brand new DH bike. It's a very good compromise at first sight in between price, weight and product reliability… but for the Bar only. Yeah because the 1st day I've been using them, I just slipped the front wheel in a corner because of leaves : it was a very slow speed and soft crash I had and the bar just touched the ground while the bike was slipping, despite it, the stem twisted itself and made my cockpit angled for few degrees and was impossible to fix it. For the stem I swithed to a RaceFace directmount which is a little bit heavier but a way stronger with only 1 position which makes the back support wall thickness bigger. I had then another crash in a brunch of trees : the bar is really good one tho, lightweight, large and stiff and indestructible. I killed a tree, the bar had nothing even the new raceface stem!.