Is anyone using Elitaone's carbon stems? I figured since their seatposts are good, the stems should be as well.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256808243832442.html?

I just installed this Elita One stem on one of my road bikes, seems sturdy enough. I didn't go to the 5.5nm max torque range on the stem, 5nm seemed adequate enough.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256808372951406.html

Do you think that could be flipped to +6? I feel like the design may not be suitable for flipping.

Edit: It has been brought to my attention (in posts on my thread where I discussed my cracked seatpost) that the install manual specifically points out that you shouldn't do exactly what I did to crack my posts. I'm an idiot because I didn't see that and cracked at least 2 posts because of it. Elitaone deserves a fair bit of credit for actually having that instruction noted in their manual (even if I'm too dumb to notice it).

I actually just came here to make a post about my Elitaone carbon seatpost that cracked during install today.

I had one fail while riding a month or two back and I just got around to replacing it due to the difficulty in removing the broken seatpost from the frame. I didn't blame Elitaone for the first one because I'm 99% certain I had cracked it, initially, while adjusting the seat one day without a torque wrench. It seemed fine afterward, though, and I happily rode it for a couple months and just avoided adjusting the height again. Well, I was playing chicken with it and it failed while riding in about the worst time and location possible. Again... not really the seatposts fault and I can't believe I rode on it that long and under the conditions I did before it failed.

This time, though... I was DAMN sure to use a torque wrench, and even bought a newer, better torque wrench so that I wouldn't be tempted to make adjustments without it again. I was making some final tweaks to the seat height and, about the 2nd or 3rd time I adjusted it, I heard a sharp crack right about 4.5 Nm of torque. I pulled it off and cleaned it. Sure enough, it's cracked. I think I'm going to go with a different option this time, and I'm no longer so sure about Elitaone. Which is a little scary because I have one of these on 2 of my other bikes.

Interesting, I wonder if they changed up their manufacturing. Curious what you end up going with.

Quote from: Hualicopter on September 21, 2025, 08:48:55 PM
Interesting, I wonder if they changed up their manufacturing. Curious what you end up going with.

For my gravel bike, I'm currently shopping for a titanium seatpost. I don't ever want to wind up in that kind of bind again. For my road bike... I don't know. I guess I'll stick with carbon and keep my fingers crossed.

And, again, Elitaone is NOT to blame in this case, because they send a manual with the seatpost and that manual calls out a step that I missed, which lead to the cracking of my post. Elitaone deserves a fair bit of credit for actually having that instruction noted in their manual (even if I'm too dumb to notice it).

Quote from: Hualicopter on September 20, 2025, 07:05:06 PM
Is anyone using Elitaone's carbon stems? I figured since their seatposts are good, the stems should be as well.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256808243832442.html?

I got this same stem in 100mm on my BMC Roadmachine with carbon RXL bar. Love the combo. Nothing to complain about.

Sweet thank you. I'll be placing an order with the next round of sales then!