Lite weight, quality of materials, Ti bolts, Design and Craftsmanship.

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Pictures do not do it justice. The craftsmanship is amazing. The removal of unnecessary material while keeping the stem ultra rigid amazing. I have bottomed out my fork on rough trail and while my body weight is on the bar and stem I feel no flex.

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Weight as advertised

Weak clamping to steer tube

I've tightened the puny little bolts as tight as I dare with a long allen wrench, but every time I hit the same obstacle on my local trail - a big log pile - the stem twists on the steer tube as I negotiate this stunt, since it requires a bit of a turn on top of the pile. There are warnings all over the stem indicating XC only... I'd suggest in my experience it needs to be pretty mild XC - or maybe my steer tube is just slippery? I'm going to switch as soon as I can get something else - maybe a ritchey WCS.

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lightweight

to bolt heads round off

i found that if i torqued the front face plate ti bolts to the manufacturers recommended nm's the bars would rotate so i torqued them more little by little after every ride until the bars stopped moving (i simply dont want to ride my bike with rotating bars....sorry but no way)
when i tried to dismantle the bike to place into the bike box for going away on vacation the ti bolts wouldnt budge even although i coated the ti bolts with copper grease and i eventually rounded off the bolts rendering them useless...so the only way i could get the stem off was to smash it with a hammer!!, trust me this ergal metal is strong stuff as it took several blows to smash the face plates whilst only denting the stem body!!!!
i definately prefare larger diameter bolts than these small ones.

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looks amazing, very light and strong, ti bolts

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another supurb part from the guys at extralite...

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