Thread: Stiff and Lightweight Stem?
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Old 04-10-13 | 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
My experience is that carbon doesn't help much for getting to lightest weight in a stem (comparing to everything available),.
When I bought my Zero7, no one in the U.S. had the FSA carbon fiber stem with the Zero Z graphics, so I put an aluminum Zipp service course SL stem on.

Finally ran down the Zero7 CF stem from a shop in Switzerland, (at an outrageous price).

The Aluminum zipp stem weighs 125 grams; the FSA Zero 7 CF stem 165 grams.
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