Ugh. I see it on a road bike but on a mountain bike how many times have you crashed and had your perfectly torqued stem rotate on your steerer tube preventing other potential failures? Put a different way, have I seen more bent (aluminum) and broken (carbon) bars on, DH rigs (having at the same time seen significantly fewer DH rigs) because people are crashing them harder and faster than single crown Enduro bikes, or because the stems are hard-mounted to the top crown and it takes less force bend/break a bar than it does to sheer 4x M5 bolts?
April 4, 2022, 9:29 p.m. - Andrew Major
Ugh. I see it on a road bike but on a mountain bike how many times have you crashed and had your perfectly torqued stem rotate on your steerer tube preventing other potential failures? Put a different way, have I seen more bent (aluminum) and broken (carbon) bars on, DH rigs (having at the same time seen significantly fewer DH rigs) because people are crashing them harder and faster than single crown Enduro bikes, or because the stems are hard-mounted to the top crown and it takes less force bend/break a bar than it does to sheer 4x M5 bolts?