Pro-rider with stem shorter than 12cm?

[svm]

Are there pro-riders who use stems shorter than 12 cm?

The only person I can think of is Pantani at 11cm.

[ultyguy]

Luis Leon Sanchez used a 100mm on his Giant when he was with Rabo...didn't seem to hurt his descending ability!

[elSid]

They're out there...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/pro-bike-marianne-vos-giant-envie-advanced

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/pro-bike-joachim-parbos-cielo-cross-racer

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/pro-bike-yukiya-arashiros-colnago-m10
(42cm Alanera has 100mm stem)

[ico]

Wilco Kelderman is on 11cm too http://www.bikeradar.com/road/gear/arti ... xr2-41318/

[nathanong87]

tom jelte rocking 116mm stem

http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/01/ ... -sl_272903

[nathanong87]

purito on a 100mm 4-axis ritchey stem

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/pho ... -cf/304178

[wingguy]

purito on a 100mm 4-axis ritchey stem

Quality slammage tho.

[KWalker]

Horner ran something pretty tiny.

I think Peraud was on a 100, one of the AG2R riders had a pro bike profile with a short stem.

For what its worth when I was at the Tour a few years back I walked around after the stage by the busses and checked out the bikes- a ton of riders were on stems in the 90mm-110mm range. Katusha was still on Ridleys back then and a lot of their riders either had a short Deda Pista stem, or a 150mm FSA with Deda logos painted on. Almost all of the smaller teams had pretty "normal" setups and FDJ in particular had a lot of non-slammed setups with shorter spacers and 0 offset posts.

[tymon_tm]

Armstrong had episodes of riding with a 110

[svm]

Thanks a lot for the interesting examples!!

[mulletmaster]

I think there will be more now people aren't as obsessed with running tiny frames. Kittel has a good couple of spacers below his stem.

[nathanong87]

I think there will be more now people aren't as obsessed with running tiny frames. Kittel has a good couple of spacers below his stem.

[dogg]

but...bro thats like a 7mm dust cap. so.much.stack

what a fred