I always personally took it as a suggestion one probably shouldn't use it for aggressive single track and mountain biking with wide handlebars more so than adventure touring and light trail riding. I've never had slip issues.
On Monday, March 3, 2025 at 1:11:26 PM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: > I know some users have experienced slip at the bars with the single bolt > stem. > > You are probably fine if you aren't doing any jumps/drops and the stem has > good insertion. If it was all the way up I bet it would be pretty flexy. > > Brian > > On Monday, March 3, 2025 at 3:02:04 PM UTC-6 Nick Payne wrote: > >> My bikes with those stems have been thumped over numerous pretty rough >> roads (not single track, but unsealed roads and fire trails) without having >> any problems with the stems. Our touring tandem has had one of those stems >> on it since I put the bike together in 1987, and we've ridden that over a >> lot of Australia on some pretty crap roads: >> [image: Scan-110412-0010.jpg] >> >> Nick Payne >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3011190a-a891-4de4-9dde-442a37ca566cn%40googlegroups.com.
