sorry you lost me tinas when you started trying to tell me a tube has a torque limit.
same with handlebars with torque limits – its bullshit and you know that.
it has a limit on clamping force – that doesnt equal a torque.
its an arbitary number.
That was actualy exactly my point. Unless you’ve sat down and done a load of maths, tightening your stem to the correct torque for the bolts it fairly pointless, you’ll crush the bars first.
Same with a front mech clamp, if you torqued it upto 75% of the breaking strain of the bolt (or more likley, the alloy clamp on a higher end mech), you’d probably crush the seatube, ditto the carbon handlebars, steerer. The recomended torque printed on them makes a whole host of assumptions, unless you know what they were, does it really matter how accurate your torque wrench is? It’s probably not the least accurate part of the procedure!