I recently bought a tosco to use with a faceplater stem because the losco I was trying out didn't agree with me. I like the wider, more flared tosco a lot. Anyway, In a test ride of the new setup, the bar was slipping. I torqued the bolts down, probably too much, because I noticed in doing so that the faceplate now seems to be bent. In removing the faceplate, one of the bolts sheeted off and is stuck in the stem.
I can get the bolt out, but I'm not sure what to do with the bent faceplate. Anyone else have this issue? Anyone know if Riv has replacements? For what it's worth, I bought the 31.8 bar and stem because I was worried about slippage. I'm a big guy and that's lots of leverage, but honestly I expected better from Nitto. I replaced the faceplater with a slightly shorter 2 bolt removable faceplate stem from Velo Orange, which has larger diameter bolts to attach the faceplate, and didn't experience any slipping. However, the VO stem us a little shorter than I'd like, and I really hate to think I'm just out a nice looking stem because of the bent faceplate. Brett in PDX -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/64bef41e-ed07-4a3e-93b4-bc8fb07340d4n%40googlegroups.com.
