We have considered the re-muv-a-plate and have not totally rejected it. I think I'm the only one here who has any misgivings at all, but I'm also the one who'd get in trouble if Joe Blow blew it with the bolts and got hurt--and tragically, that influences things, sometimes. I feel an emoticon coming on! Anyway, the stem is best used when converting a too-small bike with drops or straight bars, to an Albatross or Choco bar. Maybe Alba if a road bike, or Choco-with-its-greater-sweep if a mountain bike---and in either case, those bars won't need changing :). <--is that right? NITTO does some r-plate stems, and reports that the vertical slot isn't as strong as a horizontal slot, and that becomes an issue with wider bars and mountain bars. A 42cm drop bar doesn't leverage the clamp as much as a 55cm wide-y. All these things the tests reveal that rides don't, but that we, as kind of gatekeepers for your safety, have to watch out for.
Many things related to bike set up and component use and correctness that may seem obvious to 99 percent of you reading this, are not to be taken for granted among the population as a whole, by which I include and am only really talking about OUR customers. I think our customer have more than average bike smarts, but as the years pass the number of bikes and parts we've put out there climbs, and ownership passes to eBay customer and so on...and it doesn't mean we have to ultra-dumb down our stuff, it just means we have to chew on things longer before doing 'em. The Jumbo Grabsack...I'll try my old 15-er in it and report. That computer died, but it has a great Sheldon sticker on it, so I keep it around. Anyway, not to bring up THIS again, but I have been known to tote a laptop around in a Saddlesack LIKE EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE, and a 13er in El Jumbo fits into a MED..but a 15er won't. It'd go into a large, though. High rise with 25.4 mm clamp; looks promising. But puh *leeze* make the > clamp with a removable face plate! > > The larger Grabsack also looks good, but alas it is designed for a 13" > laptop, not the 15" I have. They should add a waist strap, too. > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > ************************************************************************** > ************** > *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a > circumference on which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities > revolve. *Chuang Tzu > > *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the > world revolves.) *Carthusian motto > > *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart > > *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
