Once a product has been designed it takes a little while before it’s packaged and on the shelve of your local bike shop. Prototyping, tooling, manufacturing, shipping and testing, it’s all part of the production process. Team riders and their friends usually take care of the final testing of a newly designed product so you might take a closer look at the team riders’ bikes next time you see them. It might just have some unknown parts on it.
You can find this Mirraco stem on
Jean Marie Baertsch's
bike. He is riding around in Switzerland somewhere.