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The "Raised Reversed Stem" broke my brain. It might be genius.

I received a box containing the “Raised Reversed” mountain bike stem. Install this on your bike, and you’ll surely agree that it looks completely sketchy and unstable. Surprisingly, it’s not, and in this video I’ll explain why.

I’m continuing to test this stem and will give long-term results at some point, but in my early tests this thing felt good on descents. On climbs, I wasn’t quite adjusted to it and I’ve heard the same from others. The creator of the Raised Reversed Stem completely disagrees, and says you need to get used to it and change your body position to see the benefits. He seems like a genuinely smart and honest guy, and so I don’t doubt that he could be right. I just don’t see it yet.

I’ve seen some other concepts like Mondraker’s “Forward” geometry, which do have some similarities with the RR stem, but nothing yet that transforms a normal enduro bike into something so confusing.

At $400, the RR is probably the most expensive stem you can buy, but considering a single engineer created this in tiny numbers with what we can only assume is an outsourced CNC service, the price makes perfect sense. Is it worth it? That will take me more time to tell you, but it’s worth a discussion.

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19 Replies to “The "Raised Reversed Stem" broke my brain. It might be genius.”

  3. Reminds me when 29er where new and special Companys emerged with 29er Hardtail/ Hard Forks on them, because there where no 29er Suspension Forks

  5. Just like a dirtbike or anyone whos run a direct mount bar setup on their double crown.

  6. Anyone ever gone down a hill offroad on a Dutch granny bike? yea that works surprisingly well too ???? Kinda the same reason I guess although on those, your hands actually sit behind the steering axis quite a bit

  7. Can you try a cheaper option of getting the shortest stem available with handle bars that have a rise of 75-100mm? I always felt better with handle bars with higher rise. Very dirt bikeish ????????

  8. Well it's just like having riser bars. I use them because I have a neck injury from decades ago when I crashed my mum's cars, twice. So I can't lift my head up to much as it's painful. So, riser bars are way cheaper!

  10. This is a BMX riding position, it transforms your MTB into an oversized BMX with amenities.

  11. I have a prototype made by Avid that is this same style of stem, but it has zero rise. It was made in early 2000nds and was abandoned at the time because riders found the handling to be to "twitchy". I have had it on my tandem mountain bike and love it because it give a feel similar to my single. The bar right on top of the steer tube, with no rise, elevates the lack of climbing performance that the "Raised Reversed" Stem has. I think its a shame that Avid did not peruse this further.

  12. You have to do it without that device with a slightly angularly raised stem. (0 to 20mm vertical gain) and a raised handlebar (0 to 60mm) handlebar ergotech in Germany does a 60mm rise one. So all in all I have managed to get 80mm (3.149" for our American cousins) which I utilised on an old geometry bike to make it ride better.

  15. never really owned a mountain bike and only rode bmx but i'm a geometry and bike tech nerd so i'm subd to your channel.
    my main complaint on bigger wheeled bikes when i try to ride one is that my weight always rest in my arms as i feel like i'm leaning too forward trying to control the bike.
    in a bmx bike, you can crouch down and control the bike easier and let your upper torso relax and steer.
    on the side of bmx, modern bars has also gone up in height over the years from 8.5 to 10 inches but has now stabilized to around 9 to 9.5 inches now.
    stand over height has also went in a phase of high to very low to a medium/high stand over now.
    bikes with tall bars and low standover are now frowned upon and are called scooter bikes.
    in the case of bike companies doing incremental changes to geometry, i think that was the case in relation to bar height as unsealed headset were replace with oversized sealed headsets, smaller bars were still being released when the "extra height" provided by the lock rings of the unsealed headsets was already removed, therefore, midschool bikes looked pretty low.
    integrated headsets are now the standard and higher bars are too.
    but in the trend of keeping the bike look clean and eliminating extra steerer tube spacers, headtube height are now going up to, and the bars has become relatively mid.

    now, the problem with the looks of the raised reverse stem is that it really sticks out like a sore thumb and it really looks like a scooter bike. a smaller stem and a bmx style bar might solve the problem but it then would look like a bmx or a cruiser bike.
    if, this geometry proves beneficial, big bike companies should take the bmx route of raising the headtube height to compensate for it.

  16. For something in between just put on a super short stem with something like a 75mm riser bar and angle them back a little bit.

  17. There's a comparison to a moto-x bike and rider position and with advantages. On the other hand, a moto-x doesn't use human power to climb and no validity to compare by.

  18. well we have movable seatposts…now we get movable front ends of bikes. why not. the future is here, always

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