Originally Posted by El Diablo Rojo
I've used Deda Newton stems for the last 4 years and found them to be great. I used them when I was 185lbs and now at 145. My current set up with the Ritchey's is WSC logic bars 26.0 42cm cc. Ritchey WSC stem 120mm. I've done all out sprints and hard out of the saddle climbs with no noticable flexing. My guess is that he is feeling his underinflated tires or fork flex before the stem.
yeah, he lives like 60 miles away so i haven't had a chance to see what he's talking about.
tires were my first impression too. Although he just got a scott CR1 pro coming from a 90 something aluminum vitus with 75k miles on it... Maybe he's used to a quill stem... who knows we'll figure it out eventually...Thanks for the reference on the deda stuff.