But don't forget that with the Nitto stem you are saving the weight of the fork tube extension, whatever that may be.
On Aug 14, 8:52 pm, Aaron Thomas <aaron.a.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: > In all fairness to Mark, it must be kept in mind that the goal was to > build the prototype with weight in mind, given that the Roadeo is > intended as a lightweight club rider. > > I'm not sure about the particular Ritchey stem he used, but since many > of those sorts of stems weigh just a little over 100g, there is a not > inconsiderable weight savings compared to the otherwise very nice > Nitto stem that Steve linked to above, which weighs in the > neighborhood of 300g. That's somewhere between a 1/3 to 1/2 lb. > difference, if my math is correct. > > If they succeed in getting the final build below 20 lbs, it would go > some way toward demonstrating that lugged steel and lightweight bikes > are not mutually exclusive categories, even if the bike still carries > what some may consider a 3 or 4 lb weight "penalty" with respect to > the latest carbon machines. > > On Aug 14, 5:03 pm, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: > > > > > On Aug 14, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 17:36 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: > > > >> On Aug 14, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Rocky B wrote: > > > >>> Great-looking bike. Can't wait to see the final version. > > > >>> Is it me or does lugged frames with threadless stems look weird? I > > >>> can never get used to them together. > > > >> They looked fine when Alex Singer and Rene Herse did them 50 years > > >> ago. And Tom Ritchey did them in the 1970s, too. I think the issue > > >> is that the modern threadless stem tends to have a big fat tube > > >> instead of an elegant looking tube for the extension. > > > > It doesn't have to be that way: > > >http://www.businesscycles.com/graphics/tstem-nitto_tless.jpg > > >http://www.businesscycles.com/graphics/tstem-nitto_tless3.jpg > > > > I'd call that "elegant" > > > Me, too. Hence why I mentioned them earlier as preferable to the fat > > black Ritchey stem in the photo. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
