That is an unusual place to find one of those stems! Looks good! I second the appeal to Riv to remake those stems, but with a much longer quill. I do think that, if you are going to raise a bar high above the steerer, the extension ought to have a positive angle, and the Ritchey splits the difference between a "7" and an upjutter. And, the Ritchey is simply a nice looking stem.
In fact, if anyone has something like that in a 9 cm, I 'd be interested ... I have one of those XT rds on the Fargo and yes, they are nice. But, odd: when I switched from the 9 sp LX because it was reverse pull, I found that the XT was much less precise and had to re-learn my shifting technique. Too bad Shimano can't make this old 8 sp XT rd with the same travel precision that the newer LX has. Since I've learned to modify my shifting, the XT is excellent, but that LX was something else altogether. Tape: it doesn't look as good, but let me again plug the Lizard Skin DSP line. I use the 2.5 mm on my Rivs and the 3.2 mm on the Midge on the Fargo. For comfort, the best tape I've used. On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Scot Brooks <scothinck...@gmail.com>wrote: > Looks awesome! Is that an old XT rear derailer? I think I have that same > one kicking around somewhere. Always liked the look of those. > > -- > 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?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- ------------------------- Patrick Moore, Albuquerque, NM, USA For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html ------------------------- -- 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
