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Trouble
a Recreational Rider
from Date Reviewed: April 9, 2011
Strengths: NoneWeaknesses: Everything about Ritchey components is weak and their customer service is the worst in this industryBottom Line: Bought this for my second bike to experiment with setup so that I had another spare stem.
Bolts stripped out, wouldn't hold position and it finally cracked. Pretty much useless like a lot of the Ritchey products I've since stopped using.
Favorite Ride: Eastside
Price Paid:
$40.00
Purchased At: LBS
Similar Products Used: Bontrager is all I own now, the best customer service
Thompson stuff is the best and Ritchey knows it.
Bike Setup: Steel
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matthew
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: September 30, 2008
Strengths: cheapWeaknesses: lack of stifnessBottom Line: 13cm length. I find this stem to be too flexable for hard climbing/sprinting but it absorbs road iregularities well
Favorite Ride: hills
Price Paid:
$30.00
Purchased At: wiggle
Similar Products Used: itm(varius models)
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jjohnlee
a Triathlete
from Date Reviewed: September 2, 2005
Strengths: Great Value!Weaknesses: None yet.Bottom Line: Very nice stem for the money. Stiff enough for me and I am not exactly small (6'03 at 185lbs). I bought the MTB version for my Kona and I love that one too!
Favorite Ride: any ride is a good ride
Price Paid:
$40.00
Purchased At: nashbar.com
Bike Setup: Fuji Team with full Ultegra
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stackhouse
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: February 14, 2005
Strengths: Cheap, light and stiff.Weaknesses: Bolts strip out easily.Bottom Line: After talking with another friend who had a bolt strip out while installing a new ritchey pro stem, I thought I should pass along my recent experience. Although, I was careful threading in the bolts, one of the four face bolts used to install the bar stripped out of my stem as well. I then installed a longer bolt and was able to put a lock nut on the back side of the stem for security. Amazingly though when I pushed down hard on the bar to test the set up, a different bolt popped its threads, and the bar came loose. Scary.
I'm not well sure how Ritchey warrantees their products, but I don't think I'll find out because I wouldn't trust a replacement after this experience.
After failing with this and the flexy WCS stem, I guess I'll have to venture out of the value market to look at $100+ stems for something that's light, stiff, and secure, if not cheap.
Bike Setup: Ridley Icarus w/ DA 10
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Wojo
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: November 19, 2004
Strengths: Light, strong, relatively inexpensive.Bottom Line: What can I say? If you think that a stem should be a reliable and light piece of metal that consistantly connects the handlebars to the bike and NOT made of some obscure element that costs as much as a mortgage payment, the Ritchey Pro is for you. Not much more to say. I like this stem. I have never had any problems with slippage or flex. I like the redundancy of 4 plate bolts instead of 2, and the finish is pretty. The opposing stem bolts and offset angle of both the clamp and spacer shim indicate well thought out engineering.
Purchased At: Nashbar
Similar Products Used: ITM Mantis, Cinelli, TTT
Bike Setup: LeMond Chambery, Ultegra Gruppo, Mavic Ksyrium SL wheels
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