Huh, I've never heard of that. You may want to contact Harris to be sure, but I suspect it's lawyer-speak for "don't do downhills with gigantic drop-offs just because the name has 'dirt' in it." DirtDrops were spec'd on the dropbar Bridgestone MB-1 back in the day, and it was most certainly expected to be ridden on trails. This was before suspension and bicycles being hurtled down hills like motocrossers, so Nitto didn't have that to warn against for their product.
On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 11:05:33 PM UTC-7, drew wrote: > > ok, final question. talked with keven yesterday, who recommended the dirt > drop. i dont mind the looks, so i was gonna go that way and then read "not > designed for rugged off road use" on the harris cyclery site > <http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/stems/> , while it says nothing about > the regular quill stems from nitto. i assume they dont say that about a > technomic because not that many people are gonna use a technomic for rugged > off road use. left me wondering 1-if there is significant difference in > strength between a regular and a dirt drop? and 2-if the dirt drop is not > for rugged off road use, what is a quill stem that is? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
