Ritchey WCS Carbon 4 Axis stem review

Light and flashy as hell, but you pay for the honour

Our rating

3.0

Published: October 8, 2007 at 11:11 am

Our review
Super bling and light but hyper expensive and still flexy.

>It's light and it's flashy as hell, but with this stem you pay for the honour.

According to Ritchey their carbon wrap over alloy body is a "new frontier of material and manufacturing technology". The same clamp design as the Syncros stem makes it flexy though especially in such a thinwall structure. A slanted rear slot with opposing bolts makes it suitable for the most delicate fork steerers while flip flop decals mean you can invert if for racer low bar position. >

We're slightly concerned about using carbon bars with the internally knurled face plate though. Ti bolts are designed to be used with Ritchey's 'Torqkey' for those without a torque wrench. >

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