Bike Forums - View Single Post - Integrated Bar-Stem Designs... Love, Hate, or Somewhere in Between??

12-21-23 | 12:09 PM

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Turnin_Wrenches

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Originally Posted by Iride01

I didn't realize that the bars can't be rotated in them. Is that just your particular brand/model of integrated stem or is that common for most all of them?

The Madone bar and stem are literally one continuous unit with no separation, so it is what it is and that's all it is (and will ever be

)... same goes for all other integrated bar-stem configurations (AFAIK).

Even in the photo it looks like the drops curl up slightly. Not sure why Trek went this route

. It just strikes me as "less neutral" compared to placing the bottom of the drops more parallel with the ground.

Last edited by Turnin_Wrenches; 12-21-23 at 12:17 PM.

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