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Submitted by
enarburg
a Weekend Warrior
from Knoxville
Date Reviewed: October 9, 2008 | | Favorite Trail: | Iron mountain | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Great for light duty use like commuting or XC. | | Weaknesses: | Cannot hold up on rough trails. After going down a mountain for about a mile I noticed the derailleur had snaped off. | | Bottom Line: | The derailleur can handle some of the mountain but not a constant beating. I would definitely purchase a more reliable derailleur if you like keeping a fast pace throughout a rough trail. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
abominable snowman
a Weekend Warrior
from Meycauyan, Bulacan
Date Reviewed: September 2, 2008 | | Favorite Trail: | street | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$17.00 | | Purchased At: | kings | | Strengths: | Crisp shifting, handles chain in place even if I do jumps and drops.. | | Weaknesses: | Hours of adjusting to achieve the above, it also requires you to adjust it everytime you use it... | | Similar Products Used: | dunno | | Bike Setup: | GT avalanche 2.0, truvativ stylo crank, da bomb rim, bontragger earl tyres, alivio&deore brake and gear system.. | | Bottom Line: | This derailleur is not meant to be abused for junps and bumps, adjustments of this can give you the crack... Best use for XC and AM discipline.. adjustment though still pain in the ass.. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Patrick
a Weekend Warrior
from Tennessee
Date Reviewed: July 9, 2008 | | Favorite Trail: | LBL Canal loop | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | The Trail Head | | Strengths: | Easy to install and adjust, shifts well and fast, reliable.
cheap. | | Weaknesses: | I could have gotten it cheaper online but thats my fault for not looking around. | | Similar Products Used: | Alivio | | Bike Setup: | 08 Hardrock Pro | | Bottom Line: | I had the stock alivio derailleur but from to much hard ridding it began constantly going out of wack, so i got the deore and i couldn't be happier! just make shore you look online if your going to get this product. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
nicky
a
from westmount
Date Reviewed: May 10, 2008 | | Favorite Trail: | la guillaume | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$50.00 | | Purchased At: | martin swiss | | Strengths: | very reliable, very tough, doesnt shake, aggresive riding was what it was made for, very well made, sexy look | | Weaknesses: | shakes a little | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | hardrock 2005, new maxis tires, xt deore derailleur, marzochi dirt 3, snafu gold pedals | | Bottom Line: | very very good, reliable, tough | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andrew
a
from Bellingham
Date Reviewed: April 20, 2008 | | Favorite Trail: | Galbraith Mt. | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | None | | Weaknesses: | Any agressive riding will break it. It needs to be adjusted after every ride. | | Bike Setup: | Downhill/freeride | | Bottom Line: | I have had 3 of these things, and all of them have broken. Dont buy one, its a wast of money. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
JP Taberdo
a Cross Country Rider
from Brisbane
Date Reviewed: August 21, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | Majura Pines | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | All Terra, Manila | | Strengths: | Smooth shifting. Possibly cheap, but probably not cheap enough. | | Weaknesses: | Just weak. And slow! | | Similar Products Used: | X.7, LX | | Bike Setup: | Giant NRS3 with upgrades | | Bottom Line: | The performance is just not up to it.. Its fine for easy riders, but once you're doing anything demanding (including riding hilly roads) the mech just doesn't shift fast enough. I've tried heaps of adjustments, but I think its just a weak spring. Also the mech bobs excessively when riding over rough stuff, so ghost shifting is an issue.
I'm upgrading to an XT temporarily. Eventually I'll convert to SRAM X.9 to get the full performance out of my bike. I've been really happy with my X.7 set up on my hardtail. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sarah Schmidt
a Racer
from Start
Date Reviewed: June 14, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | Devils Elbow | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$39.00 | | Purchased At: | pump n pedal | | Strengths: | Decent price, easily replaceable. | | Weaknesses: | Squeeky, changes HARD and LOUD, finding final adjustment can be a long process. | | Similar Products Used: | XT, Altus | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher Tassajara GS | | Bottom Line: | The Deore doesn't seem to be durable as it's little cheaper sister the Altus. It changes Loud and Hard, not smooth like you'd expect (or hope). The 1st one I had Ate itself in a bad gear change so I tried a 2nd. If this one bites it (so far so good)...I'm gonna go with SRAM or maybe try backtracking into the Altus line.
Overall...It does it's job, if not begrudingly. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Daniel Johnson
a Weekend Warrior
from Richardson, TX, USA
Date Reviewed: March 20, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | Lake Grapevine | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | REI | | Strengths: | It shifts | | Weaknesses: | - Constantly needs adjustment
- ghost shifts | | Similar Products Used: | Altus, XT | | Bike Setup: | 2006 Marin Muirwoods city bike | | Bottom Line: | I have taken this thing in for 3 tune-ups and everytime it is the same thing, take it for 1 ride and it needs to be adjusted. I think I am going to replace it with the cheapo Altus that came off my old bike. I rode that for two years and never touched it once. I can't really give a fair value rating because it was a part that came on the bike. But if I would have purchased this because it says "Deore" I would be pissed. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Daniel Lin
a
from Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Date Reviewed: January 5, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | geeknerd99@gmail.com | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Purchased At: | JensonUSA | | Strengths: | Survived getting caught in spokes, which snapped my hanger. Still shifts fine. Maintains tension sooo much better than POS Acera RD that came with bike. | | Weaknesses: | If you remove a pulley to install it, make sure you tighten BOTH pulleys after you're done! I found out the hard way when I jettisoned a pulley about 3 minutes into my test ride. | | Similar Products Used: | XT shifters and RD, X-9 shifters and RD, both on friend's bikes | | Bike Setup: | Frankenbike (Iron Horse Warrior Team SE) with new stem, handlebars, bar ends, grips, shifters, saddle, seat post, brakes, brake levers, pedals, crankset, FD, RD, tires, and soon a new fork and headset or a new set of wheels. Heck, why not both? | | Bottom Line: | For 20 bucks, not bad at all. I'm sure there's better out there (XT sounds tasty), but I'm sure this'll hold me over. My bike weighs about 32 pounds for a hardtail (a lot is in the wheels), so I'm not worried about weight. Oh, and black is totally cooler than silver on my frame.
Haven't been able to ride it rough yet, and I'm not sure about mud performance. Last 400 miles for me have been on the roads w/ my slicks, with 40 so far on this derailleur. I'll be back on the trails probably once or twice before it warms back up though.
5 for value, a conservative 4 for overall (considering I had to reinstall the upper pulley, which is quite a bit like playing with a mousetrap). | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
dylan
a Downhiller
from waterdown
Date Reviewed: December 16, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Pretty good at shifting fairly smoothh | | Weaknesses: | jumps a lottt when i bunny hop it jumps | | Bike Setup: | 06 bigfoot | | Bottom Line: | if ur doin jumps and stuff be preparded to hear a lot of noices when u land. but overall a ok dearauler | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
dylan
a Downhiller
from waterdown
Date Reviewed: December 16, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Pretty good at shifting fairly smoothh | | Weaknesses: | jumps a lottt when i bunny hop it jumps | | Bike Setup: | 06 bigfoot | | Bottom Line: | if ur doin jumps and stuff be preparded to hear a lot of noices when u land. but overall a ok dearauler | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ivan
a Cross Country Rider
from Zagreb, Croatia
Date Reviewed: October 3, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | came with bike | | Strengths: | strong, and sometimes very nice shifting | | Weaknesses: | loud, sometimes problems with shifting, price | | Similar Products Used: | XT, LX | | Bottom Line: | If you are buying Derailleur for beginers it is really OK. I'm rideing bike 6 years and never let me down. After 2 years it work so good that was silent tlike LX, and shifting was so good that I didn't belive, but after 4 years rideing and 15 000 miles it start to make noise. On the havy duty when you trying to change gear if you not pick a right moment it has problem with changing. Now it cost a little les than SRAM X7 and that's a too much, and thats why I'm buying because cost 30$(25€) on sale and it has a great reviews on this site. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Nathaniel
a Downhiller
from Bellingham, WA U.S
Date Reviewed: September 21, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | CBC | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | none | | Weaknesses: | everything. | | Similar Products Used: | shimano XT | | Bottom Line: | my bike has had NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS because of this deralleur. it is a piece of crap. if you buy it you are wasting your money, seriously, this and the XT i've owned are really horrible. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
brian
a Downhiller
from goleta ca usa
Date Reviewed: September 10, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$25.00 | | Purchased At: | from a friend | | Strengths: | cheap, cost effective, It was good enough that I bought another one | | Weaknesses: | it wore out fast, and I had to tune it up all the time. | | Similar Products Used: | shimano alivio | | Bike Setup: | specialized big hit 04 | | Bottom Line: | good for rough trails where you expect to hit your derailer or if your cheap like me | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Will
a
from San Jose, CA
Date Reviewed: July 31, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Bottom Line: | Over all if your a beginner and you DON'T crash then it's okay. But if you going to crash or put some strain on this then this is not for you. It came with my bike and not I have to get rid of it cause it's sucks. It'll get you from point a to point b, but it's going to be and ugly and frustrating ride for you. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Hui Chuen Chuang
a Weekend Warrior
from Penang, Malaysia
Date Reviewed: July 24, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | anywhere | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | came with bike | | Strengths: | not bad for an economical product to do more than 2000km..... | | Weaknesses: | doesn't shift precisely......couldn't withstand abuse... i lost the second pulley when i was pedalling fast...... and had to replace a whole new RD | | Bike Setup: | stock 2005 Trek Fuel 70 | | Bottom Line: | not bad but not too good either | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike Hynes
a Cross Country Rider
from Woodstock GA USA
Date Reviewed: July 5, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | Blankets Creek | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | OEM | | Strengths: | Works for the first ride. | | Weaknesses: | Constant adjusting. I actually was spending so much $$ on tuneups I took the Park Tool class to save my money. This derailler needs adjusting after nearly every ride. Must be spotlessly clean to function right. Cables need to be perfect to shift clean. | | Similar Products Used: | SRAM X.4 and X.9 | | Bike Setup: | Motobecane 700 DS with Manitou Super Black Skareb and Cane Creek AD-12. | | Bottom Line: | Don't skrimp on components!! This POS has only 600 miles on it and I spend constant adjustments on it after each 8 miles of blue groove. I will be buying a SRAM rear de and shifters for this bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Matt
a
from Saskatchew, Canada
Date Reviewed: June 5, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Bike Setup: | 2006 Norco Manik | | Bottom Line: | Nice looking product but after one skinny it fell apart!. Comeing off a ladder on to a skinny and my back tire fell of knocking the derilleur. It wasnt even 6 inches off the ground. this might happen to other products but i had excepted something better. I'm still a beginner freerider but come on less that 6 inches and it bends! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Matt
a
from Saskatchew, Canada
Date Reviewed: June 5, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Bottom Line: | Nice looking product but after one skinny it fell apart!. Comeing off a ladder on to a skinny and my back tire fell of knocking the derilleur. It wasnt even 6 inches off the ground. this might happen to other products but i had excepted something better. I'm still a beginner freerider but come on less that 6 inches and it bends! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Matt
a
from Saskatchew, Canada
Date Reviewed: June 5, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Bottom Line: | Nice looking product but after one skinny it fell apart!. Comeing off a ladder on to a skinny and my back tire fell of knocking the derilleur. It wasnt even 6 inches off the ground. this might happen to other products but i had excepted something better. I'm still a beginner freerider but come on less that 6 inches and it bends! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Serge
a Cross Country Rider
from Kazan, Russia
Date Reviewed: May 29, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$25.00 | | Purchased At: | Sportmaster | | Strengths: | Cheap, nice looking, precise shifting | | Weaknesses: | Shifting quality falls badly if "last feet" of outer casing gets lots of mud. Loose cage. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano Altus | | Bike Setup: | Rock Machine Heatwave, drivetrain upg-d to Shimano Deore/Truvativ Blaze. | | Bottom Line: | Good for it's price. For beginners on pavement and light XC only. Not good cable attachment system (as all Shimano products), SRAM version is better, imho. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
josiah
a
from IL, USA
Date Reviewed: May 9, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | came with bike | | Strengths: | they shift | | Weaknesses: | they don't shift well | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | Giant Iguana 2002 | | Bottom Line: | I am sure they work fine when adjusted correctly but...
don't recomend this. just buy LX or XT | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Alex Kachlakev
a Weekend Warrior
from SLO, Ca, USA
Date Reviewed: May 1, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | friend | | Strengths: | provides shifting | | Weaknesses: | EVERYTHING!!! In the middle of a 12 mile race the damn cage bends up and bends some spokes. I had to walk 6 damn miles because of that crap heap. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano LX................read my other review | | Bottom Line: | Don't buy this, no one should.......it sucks muchos huevos grandes. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ben Briant
a Cross Country Rider
from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date Reviewed: April 27, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | Lysterfield | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | Good all around rear derailleur. Does the job. | | Weaknesses: | Squeekyness when shifting. Chain slap. | | Bike Setup: | 05 Giant Yukon mostly stock. | | Bottom Line: | This came stock on my Giant Yukon, it seems to have held up very well. It will probably last me another 2 more years until it needs to be replace. Deore seem to be tough components and built to last so i recommend this derailleur for the usual cross country rider or weekend warrior. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike
a Cross Country Rider
from Brighton, Michigan, USA
Date Reviewed: April 11, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | Potowatami | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Came with the bike | | Strengths: | Solid, full metal construction (except the gears), good shifter, preformance you would expect from a derallieur in this price range. | | Weaknesses: | A little bit on the heavy side, not as precise in manufacturing as an XT or XTR (come on, what do you expect). | | Similar Products Used: | Alvio, Altus, older shimano derallieurs on road bikes | | Bike Setup: | 2005 Trek 6500 | | Bottom Line: | If you are looking for a good derallieur for recreational riding then this is it. If you are a weight saving junkee, then maybee you shold think about XT or XTR. This derallieur is an economy version of the LX and XT derallieurs. When properly adjusted, it will function well. Some people say that it shifts poor and doesn't hold up and stuff. Bottom line:If you are a stupid retard who doesn't know how to preform a basic repair like adjusting/fixing a derallieur, or doesn't know how to ride properly, then don't buy this deraiileur and most definatley do not ride a bike on trails. I will give this derallieur 3 flaming chillis for value and the overall rating, because there are better things out there and there are worse. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bonyat Miranda
a Downhiller
from Philippines
Date Reviewed: January 4, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | V-10 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Purchased At: | Kings | | Strengths: | It's Shimano!.... | | Weaknesses: | Yeheee... banana.. banana...banana... slip off to diff. gear when drop( up grade now! as advice from a stupid weekend warrior form tanay!) | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano 105 | | Bike Setup: | Da bomb frame, drop off fork , x.t.r derailleur.. etc..etc.. | | Bottom Line: | Try to buy your derailleur at ROSS or VELOCITY cartimar.. don't buy 2nd hand derailleur at ATLAS... banana... banana... banana warrior! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jhay
a Weekend Warrior
from Philippines
Date Reviewed: December 30, 2005 | | Favorite Trail: | Mega DH, Taytay, Rizal | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Purchased At: | Atlas Bike Shop, Cartimar, Pasay City | | Strengths: | Delivers a high level of quality and performance you've come to expect with Shimano MTB components at an excellent value. Whether it's a friendly race in the dirt, cruising along single track, or just riding around town, Shimano DEORE has the performance to match. | | Weaknesses: | The chain will slip into different gears when your jumping mostly during a race competition with some ruts and rockies. | | Similar Products Used: | now i got a new Shimano rear derailleur, the 105 (road) | | Bike Setup: | 2005 Xtension DH (Eliminator 2 look-a-like) on Rockshox Boxxer Race :D | | Bottom Line: | do yourself a favor and don't buy this derailleur. If it came stock on your bike, upgrade now! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Submitted by
Nhel
a Weekend Warrior
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$ 19.00
