Exactly why I'm still using one!
Broken Sunline Stem
- Thread starter eastcoastDH
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Nice idea, but if Sam Hill isn't using it I am not interested.
then people will complain about their stuff twisting during a crash. pick your poison, don't crash. I'd rather always have my stem aligned and the low profile of a direct mount. The DM stem is one of the best inventions of the modern DH bike, IMO, and because Rockshox stuck to their guns and no high priced engineers got involved, we have only one standard in 2012. That's pretty impressive.
better knock on wood!
may have missed it as I only browsed over the thread but did Sunline at least want the old stem back to see failure for future product improvement?
It gets worse! I washed out last weekend on... *gasp* Maxxis tires!
He offered to send it back AFTER they offered the 50% off. They didnt really seem to care if he did or not, but he wants to for that exact reason.
guys, it's crash damage..... why would they be @rsed about it? it's not like it failed in normal operation
FYI, not necessarily related...
Sunline beefed up their bars quite a bit, i've seen a few bent but then again they were the only wide bars out there for a while. Everyone had them for a while.
Never seen the bars broken, only bent.
With these wide and now stronger bars i'd think the stem should be made out of 2 pieces not 3, or even 4 like some direct mount stems.
But then we'd just break more fork lowers, somethin's gotta give.
Sunline beefed up their bars quite a bit, i've seen a few bent but then again they were the only wide bars out there for a while. Everyone had them for a while.
Never seen the bars broken, only bent.
With these wide and now stronger bars i'd think the stem should be made out of 2 pieces not 3, or even 4 like some direct mount stems.
But then we'd just break more fork lowers, somethin's gotta give.
I'd prefer not to break anything that plays some roll in keeping my face from hitting my front tire.
Well something has to be the weak link. Beef everything on the bike up and it will be your arms that go first
QFT.
Wide bars + Overshooting/Nosing a jump = Broken Humerus. Coincidentally, both my bars and stem at the time were Sunline. The only damage to my bike were tweaked Boxxer lowers.
I wonder if there are any high priced engineers we know of that were involved with creating the DM standard...
i'm just intertrolling, chill out. It was a good standard from the start, and for that we don't have multiple standards. yay!