Salsa Casseroll Stem Change
Posted by: Jarod at 6:15 am, June 21st, 2009
About a month ago now I got the stem on the Salsa swapped over by the nice fellas at MCC. Sadly, Dirtworks were a bit retarded and stuffed up by sending out a stem with an oversize clamp diameter, so I got relegated to a 25.4mm Token stem that MCC had in stock.
Oh yes, and it’s black. And has token written all over it. And it’s way uglier than the original Salsa one.
I was, and still am a sad panda. I manage by almost constantly trawling ebay for a cheap’ish, nice, silver, 25.4mm clamp, 70-90mm long stem. One will turn up eventually… surely.
Most of all, the sadness is angriness at myself. At the end of the day, I traded a very sexy stem that had a tiny chance of being defective, for an ugly token stem which is going to get changed out anyway. In retrospect, I wish I’d shut my mouth about the recall to MCC & Dirtworks, nailed the original original Salsa stem to the wall as a show piece and bought a new one out of my own pocket.
Live and learn. Live and learn.
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:31 am
I wonder when Salsa will make more of those cool color matched cromoto stems? My Cass. is on the way, and I’m assuming it will have an updated stem, probably black. Black does just not look right on the casseroll for some reason though. Good luck in your search.
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:39 am
Hi Tom. You should consider yourself lucky if you get a Salsa branded stem, as here in Australia we were given Ritchey or Token stems as part of the recall.
And you’re right, nothing looks as good as the colour matched Salsa stem.