best stem to be painted?

[MattTuck]

Looking for an alloy stem that I could have painted.

Considerations:

Would like one that totally covers the steerer tube. No cute little windows or reveals/cut outs.

Would like a simple, flat face plate.


Many thanks.

[vqdriver]

ritchey wcs?
the older style 4axis stems have minimal cutouts without the strange bar clamp of the newer style

http://cdn.media.cyclingnews.com/products/bikes/road/1281361981202-170gnfcznyw43_600.jpg

[Admiral Ackbar]

nitto makes a nice simple threadless steel stem like that, i believe ui-2 is the model

[MattTuck]

Nice, thanks!

[ColonelJLloyd]

Yeah, I've used both the UI-2 and Ritchey Classic. Very nice.

The Velo Orange stems are light and inexpensive.

[d_douglas]

I had Sacha W paint a Thomson X4 for my Vagen and he had to remove the CNC marks on it (the entire stem!) so I think it was labour intensive. I ended up using it for a year, then switching to a standard black Thomson for the bike. The stem is collecting dust now :(.

THe outcome was pretty good, but in hindsight, I wished that I had used a Ritchey stem.

I love me a nicely painted to match stem!

[Peter B]

I'm partial to the WCS stems for this application.