Originally Posted by
calamarichris
Excellent info, thanks!
Except my Technomic feels considerably stiffer than my old Cinelli, which I assumed was because the tube-in-the-tube was inserted so much deeper. (My Cinelli was raised up to the [max] line and therefore had less than two inches to grapple the inside of the fork tube.)
Those Cinelli 1/Rs were notoriously flexible, probably as result of the hidden clamp mechanism being less effective than the traditional external clamp. The Cinelli 1/A is much more solid.
And thanks John D., but I'm already purging my bowels, bladder, nasal passages, seminal vesicles and a few pints of blood to make up for the steel frame.
You won't save enough weight in the stem to make up that difference. Just ride and enjoy it!