Ritchey was founded in the 1970s as a one-man shop and has always been driven by one thing: the company's dissatisfaction with existing products. Motivated by this desire to improve on what's already out there, the brand has earned itself an outstanding international reputation over the last 40 years, and many go-to modern bike products can be traced back to them. The company's main focus is nowadays on high-performance frames and their components. With WCS (short for World Championship Series), Ritchey provides stems for mountain bikes and racing bikes that can hardly be surpassed when it comes to lightness, stiffness, progressiveness and efficiency - the name says it all.