it's there any plans to make a Direct mount for Marzocchi's 888?, I personally don't like RS Boxxer's, but I would love to get an after Market direct mount Stem from you guys.
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That's a great question.it's is there any plans to make a Direct mount for Marzocchi's 888?, I personally don't like RS Boxxer's, but I would love to get an after Market direct mount Stem from you guys.
Of course that means less than nothing, as for all we know you've never tested any stems other than your ownPartly because of the 2-piece design, the stem was also one of the strongest and lightest available, and today remains the highest strength and stiffness to weight ratio stem we've ever tested.
So you're going to leave us with all of these light weak stems, with no strong heavy dependable e13 offering? You're basically killing us!Maybe when the downhill riding public starts to chastise companies making overly lightweight and unsafe parts we'll take another shot at it, but until that time, I think we'll just sit this one out.
I do, actually I've gotten most of them from Philip (e*thirteen tech support wildman). Riders seem to love to e-mail us pictures of other people's broken stuff and chat about it, and I appreciate it because the more information we see, the better the products we can build.DW do you by chance have any pics of any of the failed stems you've seen? I'm sure they'd have interested you to see where and why they failed. Would just like to see the common weak areas myself.
Surely your direct mount stems would still sell, shame to not stick with a product due to what others are doing.
Fight the Power.
LOL, It would be a pretty asinine statement if we had only tested our own products! (but we did test ours first, as it was the first one we had way back in the day)Of course that means less than nothing, as for all we know you've never tested any stems other than your own
I think of it as the exact opposite. You see, the whole "strength, weight, and cost, pick two" adage really works here. We CNC allof our stems (and all other e*thirteen CNC and plastics) right here in the USA. It's more expensive than Taiwan. Actually, seeing as we aren't selling the things anymore, I'll tell you straight up, it cost us around $30 per stem to manufacture, and we didn't sell it for much more to distributors.So you're going to leave us with all of these light weak stems, with no strong heavy dependable e13 offering? You're basically killing us!
Hey, it's good conversation as far as I'm concerned, and I think that you brought up a couple great points!(Oh and FWIW I'm still running a standard Hope stem, I'm not getting uppity because you've dissed my £100 swiss-cheese DM stem! )
A pretty well known up and coming trashed his lightweight stem at one of the WC's in Canada in a crash. Two lessons - don't use Ti hardware in stems and lightweight parts break much quicker in a crash.You see, the whole "strength, weight, and cost, pick two" adage really works here.
I'm not into compromising strength and weight ever. That's why it's such a challenge designing parts that meet those criteria and still have a competitive price.
So what happened to the update. I'm interested in seeing how you guys redesigned your DM stem................Next week sometime, I'll work on getting up some pictures of the 2008 prototypes that never made production.
Nice!I was in Drop N Zone the other day, and they have an E13 ali in the case. Scuch said he would let it go cheap...
http://dropnzone.com/