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Lovely stem. Out of interest what torque level are you going to use with a single bolt to stop the bars slipping? I have a similar stem design and have always played it safe with alloy bars as i then have no fear of overtightening the single bolt.
jono84-
I'll just use 5-6nm on it initially and see how it goes. The bars are rated for 6nm four bolt and 8nm for 2 bolt so not sure what that means for a single bolt. The clamping area on the bar is heavily textured and I've used carbo grip. I've only ever had anodized alloy bars slip in the past but all my carbon bars have been fine at 5 nm. I've not ridden the bike yet or used single bolt before but that's the plan anyway. The clamp gives a good wrap though and the bolt is pretty fat so I'm not expecting it to pinch. I'm hoping I'll be OK and i try and avoid potholes as much as I can anyway but I've seen these stems used on gravel builds where there will be more force going through the bars than I'll be putting on them and a quick Google isn't showing any reported slippage issues but there probably aren't that many of these around. I'm more worried about by movement from my carbon railed saddle and minimal clamp on my seatpost combo. Apparently they need careful set up and some repeated fine tuning until they settle down.
Retro_Bastard
Getting the bars shoulders in through the closed design clamp was toight. I had a brief moment where i thought fuck this isn't going to work but i took a moment and put some electrical tape on the shoulders then greased the tape and whilst keeping the clamp wedged open with a 6mm allen key i was eventually able to shimmie and caress it through unscathed. The bar is a superleggera team carbon. I think I'm going to bottle it and just go with my tried and tested black Lizard skins tape and not the Rapha brevet tape and just keep the cockpit as plain black as possible and maybe add some retro Colnago chrome effect end caps. Probably the top ones as they'll match my re stickered seatpost. Just looked and i can get 3t replacement cover up decals in any colour so may cover the white with gloss black or Chrome effect if the white starts to annoy me. Does the fact that a little logo on a handlebar could irritate me mean i have some sort of problem? I mean i won't lose sleep over it but I've just spent nearly an hour and a half online looking at stickers and bar end plug options.