SLAM THAT STEM

Brian wrote in, and his email was perfect:

I’m stockpiling as much carbon fiber in this bicycle as I can TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN’T FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE NORTH KOREANS. The only place where excess carbon fiber IS NOT ALLOWED is in the stem / steer tube region. Slamming was needed to preserve world order.

(For anyone who hasn’t sized a Ridley Noah - these mofos have ginormous headtubes, it’s actually kinda hard to get the right amount of drop if you’re not used to riding that high. Tell your readers that if they’re rocking Ridleys, they can slam WITHOUT FEAR because they’ll still end up with a stem that’s 2” higher off the ground than most other racebikes in this genre.)

Perfect.

omg Mihai’s stem is fantastic. 

Erik, getting low with his Ridley.

Joshua spent ALL OF THE MONEY HE HAD (well, almost all of it) on this Ridley and he slammed it.

He’s also working with bikesfortheworld.org.

@andrewcycle rides bicycles for Team Sex Panther (real bits of panther so you know it’s good, and yes I made an Anchorman joke in 2013) and he has a Ridley and his team didn’t even have the decency to give him a new frame pump!

Josh’s new bicycle.

Outside what I’m hoping is a sauna shack.

If I had that bicycle I would hang out with it in the sauna shack after a long ride and talk about stocks. Or something. Or whatever dudes talk about in a sauna shack, I’ve never been in one.

THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is how you transport a bike frame.

Erik is the proud owner of this pile of bikes.

Eran found this on Ridley’s site.

It is also a .gif.

Basically they need to fire their entire marketing and web teams.

Darrel’s pile o’ bikes.